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 GitHub Stats
 ============
 
-GitHub stats for 2017/10/03 - 2018/07/15 (tag: v2.1.0)
+GitHub stats for 2018/03/05 - 2018/08/09 (tag: v2.2.0)
 
 These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
 
-We closed 678 issues and merged 1064 pull requests.
+We closed 27 issues and merged 101 pull requests.
+The full list can be seen `on GitHub <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/milestone/v2.2.3>`__
 
-The following 183 authors contributed 2957 commits.
+The following 28 authors contributed 347 commits.
 
 * 816-8055
-* Adrien F. Vincent
-* ahed87
-* akrherz
-* Akshay Nair
-* Alexander Harnisch
-* AlexCav
-* Allan Haldane
 * Andreas Gustafsson
-* Andy Mastbaum
+* Andrew Nelson
 * Antony Lee
-* aparamon
-* apodemus
-* Arthur Paulino
-* as691454
-* ash13
-* Atharva Khare
-* Avinash Sharma
-* Bastian Bechtold
-* Ben
 * Ben Root
-* Blaise Thompson
-* Boaz Mohar
-* Brendan Zhang
-* Brennan Magee
-* castany
-* cclauss
-* cgohlke
-* ch3rn0v
 * Charles Ruan
-* Chris Holdgraf
-* Christoph Gohlke
-* cld
-* cldssty
-* clintval
-* Cody Scot
 * dahlbaek
-* Dakota Blair
-* daronjp
 * David Stansby
-* deepyaman
-* Derek Kim
-* Derek Tropf
-* Dietmar Schwertberger
 * DietmarSchwertberger
-* Divyam Madaan
-* Doug Blank
-* Duncan Macleod
-* Elijah Schutz
+* Elizabeth Seiver
 * Elliott Sales de Andrade
-* Emlyn Price
 * Eric Firing
-* Eric Wieser
-* Erik M. Bray
-* et2010
-* Fabian Kloosterman
 * Federico Ariza
-* Filip Dimitrovski
-* Franco Vaccari
 * fredrik-1
-* fuzzythecat
-* Gauravjeet
-* Graeme Smecher
-* gregorybchris
-* Hajoon Choi
 * hannah
-* Harnesser
-* Harshal Prakash Patankar
-* Helder
-* HHest
-* Ida Hjorth
 * Importance of Being Ernest
 * ImportanceOfBeingErnest
-* Jake Vanderplas
-* Jamie Nunez
-* Jason Neal
-* jdollichon
-* JelsB
 * Jens Hedegaard Nielsen
-* Jerry Lui
-* jerrylui803
 * Jody Klymak
 * joelostblom
-* John Hoffman
-* Johnny Gill
-* Joseph Albert
-* Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz
-* Joseph Martinot-Lagarde
 * Jouni K. Seppänen
-* Juan Nunez-Iglesias
-* Justin Cai
-* Katrin Leinweber
-* Kevin Ji
-* Kexuan Sun
-* Kieran Ramos
-* Kjell Le
-* Leo Singer
-* Lionel Miller
-* Luca Verginer
-* luz.paz
-* Martin Spacek
-* Matthew Bell
-* Matthew Brett
-* Matthias Bussonnier
-* Matti Picus
-* mattip
-* Maximilian Maahn
-* Maximilian Nöthe
-* mcquin
 * Michael Droettboom
-* Michael Seifert
-* Mitar
-* Mudit Surana
-* Nathan Goldbaum
-* Nathaniel M. Beaver
-* navdeep rana
 * Nelle Varoquaux
-* nemanja
-* Nick Forrington
-* Nick Garvey
-* Nick Papior
-* Nik Quibin
-* Nikita Kniazev
-* Nis Martensen
-* nmartensen
-* Norman Fomferra
-* ob
-* Olivier
-* Osarumwense
-* Paramonov Andrey
-* Pastafarianist
-* Paul Ganssle
 * Paul Hobson
-* Paul Seyfert
-* pdubcali
-* Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein
-* Peter Würtz
-* pharshalp
-* Phil Ruffwind
-* Pranav Garg
-* Richard Gowers
-* Rob Harrigan
-* Robin Dunn
-* roonjoot
-* Roy Smith
+* Paul Ivanov
 * Ryan May
-* Saket Choudhary
-* Salinder Sidhu
-* Sam Vaughan
-* Sean Farley
-* Sergey B Kirpichev
-* settheory
-* simonpf
-* Sourav Singh
-* stone
-* stonebig
-* Taehoon Lee
-* Tanuj
-* Taras Kuzyo
-* TD22057
-* tdpetrou
-* Ted Petrou
 * Thomas A Caswell
-* Thomas Mansencal
-* Thomas Robitaille
-* Thomas Spura
-* Thomas VINCENT
-* thuvejan
 * Tim Hoffmann
-* Tom
-* Tom Augspurger
-* Tom Dupré la Tour
-* TomDonoghue
-* WANG Aiyong
-* William Mallard
-* y1thof
-* Yao-Yuan Mao
-* Yuval Langer
-* Zac-HD
-* zhangeugenia
-* zhoubecky
-* ZWL
-* Андрей Парамонов
 
 GitHub issues and pull requests:
 
-Pull Requests (1064):
+Pull Requests (101):
 
-* :ghpull:`10954`: Cache various dviread constructs globally.
-* :ghpull:`11660`: DOC: tweak reviewer guidelines.
-* :ghpull:`9150`: Don't update style-blacklisted rcparams in rc_* functions
-* :ghpull:`10936`: Simplify tkagg C extension.
-* :ghpull:`11378`: SVG Backend gouraud_triangle Correction
-* :ghpull:`11383`: FIX: Improve *c* (color) kwarg checking in scatter and the related exceptions
-* :ghpull:`11627`: FIX: CL avoid fully collapsed axes
-* :ghpull:`11658`: Sort named colors example vertically for easier comparison of similar colors
-* :ghpull:`11504`: Bump pgi requirement to 0.0.11.2.
-* :ghpull:`11650`: Add CircleCI cache of user fonts.
-* :ghpull:`11640`: Fix barplot color if none and alpha is set
-* :ghpull:`11443`: changed paths in kwdocs
-* :ghpull:`11626`: Minor docstring fixes
-* :ghpull:`11619`: DOC: move a couple of GridSpec examples into subplots gallery
-* :ghpull:`11631`: DOC: better tight_layout error handling
-* :ghpull:`11651`: Remove unused imports in examples
-* :ghpull:`11633`: Clean up next api_changes
-* :ghpull:`11643`: Fix deprecation messages.
-* :ghpull:`11642`: Fix gitter badge; remove depsy badge.
-* :ghpull:`9223`: Set norm to log if bins=='log' in hexbin
+* :ghpull:`11835`: Backport PR #11831 on branch v2.2.x
+* :ghpull:`11831`: animation api documentation changes
+* :ghpull:`11834`: Backport PR #11824 on branch v2.2.x
+* :ghpull:`11824`: facecolor stale missing
+* :ghpull:`11827`: FIX: correct macro logic in file_compat.h
+* :ghpull:`11817`: Merge pull request #11533 from tacaswell/update_for_py37
+* :ghpull:`11533`: MNT: updates for python 3.7
+* :ghpull:`11813`: Backport axes grid work
+* :ghpull:`11808`: updates error message to run pytest instead of tests.py standalone
+* :ghpull:`11812`: Final backports
+* :ghpull:`11811`: Backport: resolve conflict to get this into v2.2.3
+* :ghpull:`9993`: Rewrite and greatly simplify qt_compat.py.
+* :ghpull:`11786`: Fix collections import warnings for Python 3.7
+* :ghpull:`11733`: MAINT: use collections.abc for 3.7
+* :ghpull:`11697`: Backport PR #11694 on branch v2.2.x
+* :ghpull:`11694`: moving toolmanager initialization up before toolbar
+* :ghpull:`11671`: refresh the github stats
+* :ghpull:`11669`: Fix invalid escape sequences on branch v2.2.x
+* :ghpull:`11638`: Backport PR #11636 on branch v2.2.x
+* :ghpull:`11634`: Backport #11624
 * :ghpull:`11636`: Don't flush file object opened for reading
-* :ghpull:`11622`: FIX: be forgiving about the event for enterEvent not having a pos
 * :ghpull:`11624`: Don't use Popen(..., shell=True).
-* :ghpull:`11616`: Fix some doctest issues
-* :ghpull:`11562`: Deactivate smartquotes
-* :ghpull:`10872`: Cleanup _plot_args_replacer logic
-* :ghpull:`11617`: Clean up what's new
-* :ghpull:`11610`: FIX: let colorbar extends work for PowerNorm
-* :ghpull:`11615`: Revert glyph warnings
-* :ghpull:`11614`: CI: don't run tox to test pytz
-* :ghpull:`11603`: Doc merge up
-* :ghpull:`11613`: Make flake8 exceptions explicit
-* :ghpull:`11611`: Fix css for parameter types
-* :ghpull:`10001`: MAINT/BUG: Don't use 5-sided quadrilaterals in Axes3D.plot_surface
-* :ghpull:`10234`: PowerNorm: do not clip negative values
-* :ghpull:`11398`: Simplify retrieval of cache and config directories
-* :ghpull:`10682`: ENH have ax.get_tightbbox have a bbox around all artists attached to axes.
-* :ghpull:`11590`: Don't associate Wx timers with the parent frame.
-* :ghpull:`10245`: Cache paths of fonts shipped with mpl relative to the mpl data path.
-* :ghpull:`11381`: Deprecate text.latex.unicode.
-* :ghpull:`11601`: FIX: subplots don't mutate kwargs passed by user.
-* :ghpull:`11609`: Remove _macosx.NavigationToolbar.
-* :ghpull:`11608`: Remove some conditional branches in examples for wx<4.
-* :ghpull:`11604`: TST: Place animation files in a temp dir.
-* :ghpull:`11605`: Suppress a spurious missing-glyph warning with ft2font.
-* :ghpull:`11360`: Pytzectomy
-* :ghpull:`10885`: Move GTK3 setupext checks to within the process.
-* :ghpull:`11081`: Help tool for Wx backends
-* :ghpull:`10851`: Wx Toolbar for ToolManager
-* :ghpull:`11247`: Remove mplDeprecation
-* :ghpull:`9426`: Don't mark a patch transform as set if the parent transform is not set.
-* :ghpull:`9175`: Warn on freetype missing glyphs.
-* :ghpull:`11412`: Make contour and contourf color assignments consistent.
-* :ghpull:`11477`: Enable flake8 and re-enable it everywhere
-* :ghpull:`11165`: Fix figure window icon
-* :ghpull:`11584`: ENH: fix colorbar bad minor ticks
-* :ghpull:`11438`: ENH: add get_gridspec convenience method to subplots
-* :ghpull:`11451`: Cleanup Matplotlib API docs
-* :ghpull:`11579`: DOC update some examples to use constrained_layout=True
+* :ghpull:`11599`: Backport PR #11559 on branch v2.2.x
+* :ghpull:`11598`: Backport PR #10915 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11588`: DOC: warn if user is using constrained layout and  use subplots_adjust
-* :ghpull:`11594`: Some more docstring cleanups.
-* :ghpull:`11593`: Skip wx interactive tests on OSX.
-* :ghpull:`11592`: Remove some extra spaces in docstrings/comments.
-* :ghpull:`11585`: Some doc cleanup of Triangulation
 * :ghpull:`11580`: Use plt.subplots()
-* :ghpull:`10474`: Use TemporaryDirectory instead of mkdtemp in a few places.
-* :ghpull:`11240`: Deprecate the examples.directory rcParam.
-* :ghpull:`11370`: Sorting drawn artists by their zorder when blitting using FuncAnimation
-* :ghpull:`11576`: Add parameter doc to save_diff_image
-* :ghpull:`11573`: Inline setup_external_compile into setupext.
-* :ghpull:`11571`: Cleanup stix_fonts_demo example.
+* :ghpull:`11574`: Backport PR #11565 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11565`: Update docstring of pyplot.matshow()
-* :ghpull:`11563`: Use explicit signature in pyplot.close()
-* :ghpull:`9801`: ENH: Change default Autodatelocator *interval_multiples*
-* :ghpull:`11570`: More simplifications to FreeType setup on Windows.
-* :ghpull:`11401`: Some py3fications.
-* :ghpull:`11566`: Cleanups.
-* :ghpull:`11520`: Add private API retrieving the current event loop and backend GUI info.
-* :ghpull:`11544`: Restore axes sharedness when unpickling.
-* :ghpull:`11568`: Figure.text changes
-* :ghpull:`11248`: Simplify FreeType Windows build.
-* :ghpull:`11556`: Fix colorbar bad ticks
 * :ghpull:`11559`: FIX: Toolbar disappears in TkAgg if window if resized
-* :ghpull:`11494`: Fix CI install of wxpython.
-* :ghpull:`11564`: triinterpolate cleanups.
-* :ghpull:`11548`: Use numpydoc-style parameter lists for choices
+* :ghpull:`11567`: Backport PR #11500 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11500`: Fix shims with PyQt5 5.11
-* :ghpull:`11549`: Some docstring cleanup in ticker
-* :ghpull:`11547`: Fix example links
-* :ghpull:`11555`: Fix spelling in title
-* :ghpull:`11404`: FIX: don't include text at -inf in bbox
-* :ghpull:`11455`: Fixing the issue where right column and top row generate wrong stream…
 * :ghpull:`11060`: Fix inset_axes + doc
-* :ghpull:`11297`: Prefer warn_deprecated instead of warnings.warn.
-* :ghpull:`11495`: Update the documentation guidelines
-* :ghpull:`11545`: Doc: fix x(filled) marker image
-* :ghpull:`11287`: Maintain artist addition order in Axes.mouseover_set.
-* :ghpull:`11530`: FIX: Ensuring both x and y attrs of LocationEvent are int
-* :ghpull:`10336`: Use Integral and Real in typechecks rather than explicit types.
-* :ghpull:`10298`: Apply gtk3 background.
-* :ghpull:`10297`: Fix gtk3agg alpha channel.
-* :ghpull:`9094`: axisbelow should just set zorder.
-* :ghpull:`11542`: Documentation polar grids
-* :ghpull:`11459`: Doc changes in add_subplot and add_axes
-* :ghpull:`10908`: Make draggable callbacks check that artist has not been removed.
-* :ghpull:`11522`: Small cleanups.
-* :ghpull:`11539`: DOC: talk about sticky edges in Axes.margins
-* :ghpull:`11540`: adding axes to module list
-* :ghpull:`11537`: Fix invalid value warning when autoscaling with no data limits
-* :ghpull:`11512`: Skip 3D rotation example in sphinx gallery
-* :ghpull:`11538`: Re-enable pep8 on examples folder
-* :ghpull:`11532`: Fix the display of negative radian values in ``basic_units.py``
-* :ghpull:`11136`: Move remaining examples from api/
+* :ghpull:`11535`: Backport PR #11517 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11517`: Update legend loc default value in docstring
-* :ghpull:`11519`: Raise ImportError on failure to import backends.
-* :ghpull:`11529`: add documentation for quality in savefig
-* :ghpull:`11528`: Replace an unnecessary zip() in mplot3d by numpy ops.
-* :ghpull:`11492`: add __repr__ to GridSpecBase
-* :ghpull:`11521`: Add missing ``.`` to rcParam
-* :ghpull:`11491`: Fixed the source path on windows in rcparam_role
-* :ghpull:`11514`: Remove embedding_in_tk_canvas, which demonstrated a private API.
-* :ghpull:`11513`: Changed docstrings in Text
-* :ghpull:`11503`: Remove various mentions of the now removed GTK(2) backend.
-* :ghpull:`11493`: Update a test to a figure-equality test.
-* :ghpull:`11501`: Treat empty $MPLBACKEND as an unset value.
-* :ghpull:`11395`: Various fixes to deprecated and warn_deprecated.
-* :ghpull:`11408`: Figure equality-based tests.
-* :ghpull:`11461`: Fixed bug in rendering font property kwargs list
-* :ghpull:`11397`: Replace ACCEPTS by standard numpydoc params table.
-* :ghpull:`11483`: Use pip requirements files for travis build
+* :ghpull:`11489`: Backport PR #11485 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11485`: Use null character instead of recasting NULL to char
-* :ghpull:`11481`: remove more pylab references
-* :ghpull:`11476`: Remove pylab references
-* :ghpull:`11448`: Link rcParams role to docs
-* :ghpull:`11442`: doc_AxesBase_bug
-* :ghpull:`11424`: DOC: point align-ylabel demo to new align-label functions
-* :ghpull:`11454`: add subplots to axes documentation
-* :ghpull:`11470`: Hyperlink DOIs against preferred resolver
-* :ghpull:`11462`: Doc: beautify usetex demo example
-* :ghpull:`11421`: DOC: make signature background grey
-* :ghpull:`11457`: Search $CPATH for include directories
-* :ghpull:`11456`: DOC: fix minor typo in figaspect
-* :ghpull:`11444`: Pin pytest-timeout to fix the build.
-* :ghpull:`11293`: Lim parameter naming
-* :ghpull:`11447`: Do not use class attributes as defaults for instance attributes
-* :ghpull:`11449`: Slightly improve doc sidebar layout
-* :ghpull:`11224`:  Add deprecation messages for unused kwargs in FancyArrowPatch 
-* :ghpull:`11437`: Doc markersupdate
-* :ghpull:`11430`: Doc: Make first line in tables darker & bullets in tables
-* :ghpull:`11417`: FIX: better default spine path (for logit)
-* :ghpull:`11427`: FIX: pathlib in nbagg
-* :ghpull:`11428`: Doc: Remove huge note box from examples.
-* :ghpull:`11411`: Update documentation CSS
+* :ghpull:`11419`: Backport PR #11409: plt.box_bug_fix
+* :ghpull:`11379`: Backport PR #11363 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11409`: plt.box_bug_fix
-* :ghpull:`11392`: Deprecate the ``verts`` kwarg to ``scatter``.
-* :ghpull:`11410`: removing url dependency and resizing fig
 * :ghpull:`11407`: Properly position markers in step plots.
-* :ghpull:`11402`: Remove unnecessary str calls.
-* :ghpull:`11403`: timeline example
-* :ghpull:`11355`: DOC: Small tweak to customizing tutorial default style files can be found on github
-* :ghpull:`11399`: Autogenerate credits.rst
-* :ghpull:`11382`: plt.subplots and plt.figure docstring changes
-* :ghpull:`11388`: DOC: Constrained layout tutorial improvements
-* :ghpull:`11400`: Correct docstring for axvspan()
-* :ghpull:`11396`: Remove some (minor) comments regarding Py2.
-* :ghpull:`11210`: FIX: don't pad axes for ticks if they aren't visible or axis off
-* :ghpull:`11215`: DOC: add to transforms tutorial re fig.dpi_scale_trans
-* :ghpull:`11362`: Fix tox configuration
 * :ghpull:`11330`: FIX: Don't let constrained_layout counter overflow
 * :ghpull:`11363`: Improve docstring of Axes.pcolorfast
-* :ghpull:`11366`: Improve docstring of Axes.spy
-* :ghpull:`11289`: io.open and codecs.open are redundant with open on Py3.
-* :ghpull:`11213`: MNT: deprecate patches.YAArrow
-* :ghpull:`11352`: Catch a couple of test warnings
-* :ghpull:`11292`: Simplify cleanup decorator implementation.
-* :ghpull:`11349`: Remove non-existent files from MANIFEST.IN
-* :ghpull:`11353`: DOC: Adding example references for API & Pyplots sections
-* :ghpull:`11348`: Make OSX's blit() have a consistent signature with other backends.
+* :ghpull:`11354`: Backport PR #11344 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11344`: Improve docstring of Axes.pcolormesh
-* :ghpull:`11345`: Revert "Deprecate text.latex.unicode."
-* :ghpull:`11223`: Add an arrow tutorial
-* :ghpull:`11342`: fix sphinx issue in color cycle tutorial
-* :ghpull:`11339`: Convert Ellipse docstring to numpydoc
-* :ghpull:`11255`: Deprecate text.latex.unicode.
-* :ghpull:`11338`: Fix typos
 * :ghpull:`11336`: Use raw string literals for docstrings with escapes
-* :ghpull:`11331`: multiprocessing.set_start_method() --> mp.set_start_method()
+* :ghpull:`11334`: Backport pull request #10858
+* :ghpull:`11333`: Backport #10806 to v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11312`: Replace :ref:``sphx_glr_...`` by :doc:``/...``.
-* :ghpull:`11329`: Minor docstring update of thumbnail
-* :ghpull:`9551`: Refactor backend loading
-* :ghpull:`11328`: Undeprecate Polygon.xy from #11299
-* :ghpull:`11318`: Improve docstring of imread() and imsave()
-* :ghpull:`11311`: Simplify image.thumbnail.
-* :ghpull:`11225`: Add stacklevel=2 to some more warnings.warn() calls
-* :ghpull:`11313`: Add changelog entry for removal of proprietary sphinx directives.
-* :ghpull:`11323`: Fix infinite loop for connectionstyle + add some tests
-* :ghpull:`11314`: API changes: use the heading format defined in README.txt
-* :ghpull:`11320`: Py3fy multiprocess example.
-* :ghpull:`6254`: adds two new cyclic color schemes
+* :ghpull:`11327`: Backport PR #11317 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11317`: Improve docstring of Axes.pcolor
-* :ghpull:`11268`: DOC: Sanitize some internal documentation links
-* :ghpull:`11300`: Start replacing ACCEPTS table by parsing numpydoc.
-* :ghpull:`11298`: Automagically set the stacklevel on warnings.
-* :ghpull:`11277`: Avoid using MacRoman encoding.
-* :ghpull:`11295`: Use sphinx builtin only directive instead of custom one.
-* :ghpull:`11305`: Reuse the noninteractivity warning from Figure.show in _Backend.show.
-* :ghpull:`11307`: Avoid recursion for subclasses of str that are also "PathLike" in to_filehandle()
-* :ghpull:`11304`: Re-remove six from INSTALL.rst.
-* :ghpull:`11299`: Fix a bunch of doc/comment typos in patches.py.
-* :ghpull:`11301`: Undefined name: cbook --> matplotlib.cbook
-* :ghpull:`11254`: Update INSTALL.rst.
-* :ghpull:`11267`: FIX: allow nan values in data for plt.hist
-* :ghpull:`11271`: Better argspecs for Axes.stem
-* :ghpull:`11272`: Remove commented-out code, unused imports
-* :ghpull:`11286`: Fix broken link
-* :ghpull:`11280`: Trivial cleanups
-* :ghpull:`10514`: Cleanup/update cairo + gtk compatibility matrix.
-* :ghpull:`11282`: Reduce the use of C++ exceptions
-* :ghpull:`11278`: Remove conditional path for sphinx <1.3 in plot_directive.
-* :ghpull:`11273`: Include template matplotlibrc in package_data.
-* :ghpull:`11265`: Minor cleanups.
 * :ghpull:`11262`: Use dummy_threading if threading not available
-* :ghpull:`11249`: Simplify FreeType build.
-* :ghpull:`11158`: Remove dependency on six - we're Py3 only now!
-* :ghpull:`10050`: Update Legend draggable API
-* :ghpull:`11257`: DOC: Sort gallery subsections by explicit list then by filename
-* :ghpull:`11206`: More cleanups
-* :ghpull:`11001`: DOC: improve legend bbox_to_anchor description
-* :ghpull:`11258`: Removed comment in AGG backend that is no longer applicable
-* :ghpull:`11062`: FIX: call constrained_layout twice
-* :ghpull:`11251`: Re-run boilerplate.py.
-* :ghpull:`11228`: Don't bother checking luatex's version.
-* :ghpull:`11207`: Update venv gui docs wrt availability of PySide2.
-* :ghpull:`11236`: Minor cleanups to setupext.
-* :ghpull:`11239`: Reword the timeout error message in cbook._lock_path.
+* :ghpull:`11260`: Backport PR #11189 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11047`: FIX: image respect norm limits w/ None
-* :ghpull:`11204`: Test that boilerplate.py is correctly run.
-* :ghpull:`11172`: ENH add rcparam to legend_title
-* :ghpull:`11229`: Simplify lookup of animation external commands.
-* :ghpull:`11209`: DOC: Adding example references for Shapes,Pie&Polar,Color sections
-* :ghpull:`11212`: Fix CirclePolygon __str__ + adding tests
-* :ghpull:`11216`: Yet another set of simplifications.
-* :ghpull:`11056`: Simplify travis setup a bit.
-* :ghpull:`11221`: DOC: Search codex (fix import line)
-* :ghpull:`11211`: Revert explicit linestyle kwarg on step()
-* :ghpull:`11205`: Minor cleanups to pyplot.
-* :ghpull:`11174`: Replace numeric loc by position string
-* :ghpull:`11208`: Don't crash qt figure options on unknown marker styles.
-* :ghpull:`11191`: DOC: Adding example references for Images,contours,fields section
-* :ghpull:`11195`: Some unrelated cleanups.
-* :ghpull:`11192`: Don't use deprecated get_texcommand in backend_pgf.
-* :ghpull:`11197`: Simplify demo_ribbon_box.py.
-* :ghpull:`11180`: DOC: Revive Irregularly spaced data contour example
-* :ghpull:`11137`: Convert \**kwargs to named arguments for a clearer API
+* :ghpull:`11173`: Define ``__repr__``, not ``__str__`` for transforms.
 * :ghpull:`11189`: FIX: remove recursive call to str in transform repr
-* :ghpull:`11186`: DOC: minor tweaks to manual backport instructions
-* :ghpull:`10982`: Improve docstring of Axes.imshow
-* :ghpull:`11182`: Use GLib.MainLoop() instead of deprecated GObject.MainLoop()
-* :ghpull:`11188`: Fix image size in interpolation example
-* :ghpull:`11185`: Fix undefined name error in backend_pgf.
+* :ghpull:`11184`: Manual backport #11035
 * :ghpull:`11035`: FIX: constrained_layout and repeated calls to suptitle
-* :ghpull:`10321`: Ability to scale axis by a fixed factor
-* :ghpull:`8787`: Faster path drawing for the cairo backend (cairocffi only)
-* :ghpull:`11179`: Convert internal tk focus helper to a context manager
-* :ghpull:`11176`: Allow creating empty closed paths
-* :ghpull:`10339`: Pass explicit font paths to fontspec in backend_pgf.
-* :ghpull:`9832`: Minor cleanup to Text class.
-* :ghpull:`11141`: Remove mpl_examples symlink.
-* :ghpull:`11169`: DOC: Reactivate search for codex
-* :ghpull:`10715`: ENH: add title_fontsize to legend
-* :ghpull:`11166`: Set stacklevel to 2 for backend_wx
-* :ghpull:`10934`: Autogenerate (via boilerplate) more of pyplot.
-* :ghpull:`9298`: Cleanup blocking_input.
+* :ghpull:`11171`: FIX: str method for SymmetricalLogTransform
+* :ghpull:`11162`: Backport PR #11161 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11161`: DOC: small-doc-improvements1
-* :ghpull:`10947`: DOC: add tutorial explaining imshow *origin* and *extent*
-* :ghpull:`11157`: Fix contour return link
-* :ghpull:`11146`: Explicit args and refactor Axes.margins
-* :ghpull:`11145`: Use kwonlyargs instead of popping from kwargs
-* :ghpull:`11119`: PGF: Get unitless positions from Text elements (fix #11116)
-* :ghpull:`9078`: New anchored direction arrows
-* :ghpull:`11144`: Remove toplevel unit/ directory.
 * :ghpull:`11079`: Resurrecting axes_grid1 documentation
-* :ghpull:`11149`: Modified the plot width of the matshow() example in order to fit margin…
-* :ghpull:`11148`: remove use of subprocess compatibility shim
 * :ghpull:`11105`: When drawing markers, don't set the GraphicsContext alpha.
-* :ghpull:`11143`: Use debug level for debugging messages
-* :ghpull:`11142`: Finish removing future imports.
-* :ghpull:`11130`: Don't include the postscript title if it is not latin-1 encodable.
-* :ghpull:`11093`: DOC: Fixup to AnchoredArtist examples in the gallery
+* :ghpull:`10881`: FIX: make un-used ticks not be visible
 * :ghpull:`10968`: Improve docstring of contour
-* :ghpull:`11132`: pillow-dependency update
-* :ghpull:`10446`: implementation of the copy canvas tool
+* :ghpull:`11120`: Backport PR #10981 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`10981`: Document change of label visibility on shared axes 
-* :ghpull:`9131`: FIX: prevent the canvas from jump sizes due to DPI changes
-* :ghpull:`9454`: Batch ghostscript converter.
-* :ghpull:`10545`: Change manual kwargs popping to kwonly arguments.
+* :ghpull:`11114`: Backport PR #10792 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`10792`: Fixed not being able to set vertical/horizontal alignments in polar graphs
-* :ghpull:`10950`: Actually ignore invalid log-axis limit setting
-* :ghpull:`11096`: Remove support for bar(left=...) (as opposed to bar(x=...)).
-* :ghpull:`11106`: py3fy art3d.
+* :ghpull:`11111`: Pin sphinx!=1.7.3 on v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11107`: Pin sphinx to 1.7.2 to unbreak the doc build.
-* :ghpull:`11085`: Use GtkShortcutsWindow for Help tool.
-* :ghpull:`11099`: Deprecate certain marker styles that have simpler synonyms.
-* :ghpull:`11100`: Some more deprecations of old, old stuff.
 * :ghpull:`11090`: Clean docstring of CountourSet
-* :ghpull:`11097`: Schedule a removal date for passing normed (instead of density) to hist.
-* :ghpull:`11080`: Py3fy backend_qt5 + other cleanups to the backend.
-* :ghpull:`11083`: Update Pie Demo2
-* :ghpull:`10967`: updated the pyplot fill_between example to elucidate the premise;maki…
-* :ghpull:`10211`: Doc add sha to footer
+* :ghpull:`11084`: Backport PR #10899: Update cycler docstrings and favor kwarg over two…
 * :ghpull:`10899`: Update cycler docstrings and favor kwarg over two-args form
-* :ghpull:`11063`: Enable sphinx.ext.viewcode
-* :ghpull:`11075`: Drop alpha channel when saving comparison failure diff image.
-* :ghpull:`11045`: Help tool.
-* :ghpull:`11076`: Don't create texput.{aux,log} in rootdir everytime tests are run.
-* :ghpull:`11073`: py3fication of some tests.
 * :ghpull:`11071`: Add note about hist2d resetting axis limits
-* :ghpull:`11074`: bytes % args is back since py3.5
-* :ghpull:`11066`: Use chained comparisons where reasonable.
-* :ghpull:`11061`: Changed tight_layout doc strings
-* :ghpull:`11064`: Minor docstring format cleanup
-* :ghpull:`11055`: Remove setup_tests_only.py.
-* :ghpull:`11057`: Update Ellipse position with ellipse.center
+* :ghpull:`11067`: Remove unnecessary shebang.
+* :ghpull:`11054`: Backport PR #11052 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11052`: Fix CircleCI build.
-* :ghpull:`11043`: Doc: unreference specific axis for get_ticklabels() in axis.py 
-* :ghpull:`11009`: Changed fill.py example to be less misleading
-* :ghpull:`11017`: Doc: Adding annotated heatmap example
-* :ghpull:`11028`: Add note concerning python2 support on doc start page
-* :ghpull:`11030`: Update doc string for get_yticklabels
-* :ghpull:`11019`: DOC: add links to examples for a few examples
-* :ghpull:`10435`: Pathlibify font_manager (only internally, doesn't change the API).
+* :ghpull:`11023`: Backport PR #11022 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11022`: MNT: remove distutils.sysconfig import from toplevel module
-* :ghpull:`10442`: Make the filternorm prop of Images a boolean rather than a {0,1} scalar.
-* :ghpull:`11018`: Add link to developer discussions...
-* :ghpull:`9855`: ENH: make ax.get_position apply aspect
-* :ghpull:`9987`: MNT: hist2d now uses pcolormesh instead of pcolorfast
-* :ghpull:`11014`: Merge v2.2.x into master
+* :ghpull:`11011`: Backport PR #11002 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`11002`: Fix logic error in ScalarMappable.to_rgba
-* :ghpull:`11000`: FIX: improve Text repr to not error if non-float x and y.
-* :ghpull:`10995`: Fix layout of Other Parameters in docs
-* :ghpull:`10991`: Improve docstring of Axes.matshow
-* :ghpull:`10992`: Rewrite dashes example
-* :ghpull:`10987`: DOC: better document the MEP process
-* :ghpull:`10910`: FIX: return proper legend window extent
-* :ghpull:`10983`: Simplfy zorder_demo example for individual order
-* :ghpull:`10915`: FIX: tight_layout having negative width axes
-* :ghpull:`10408`: Factor out common code in _process_unit_info
+* :ghpull:`10952`: Backport PR #10951 on branch v2.2.x
+* :ghpull:`10979`: Backport PR #10978 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`10978`: Remove to-be-deprecated NumPy imports.
-* :ghpull:`10971`: Skip pillow animation test if pillow not importable
-* :ghpull:`10970`: Simplify/fix some manual manipulation of len(args).
-* :ghpull:`10962`: Clean up zorder example
-* :ghpull:`10953`: update nested-pie example with donut
-* :ghpull:`10958`: Simplify the grouper implementation.
-* :ghpull:`10508`: Deprecate FigureCanvasQT.keyAutoRepeat.
-* :ghpull:`10607`: Move notify_axes_change to FigureManagerBase class.
-* :ghpull:`10215`: Test timers and (a bit) key_press_event for interactive backends.
-* :ghpull:`10955`: Py3fy cbook, compare_backend_driver_results
-* :ghpull:`10680`: Rewrite the tk C blitting code
 * :ghpull:`10951`: fix wx rubberband: correctly ensure x0<=x1
-* :ghpull:`9498`: Move title up if x-axis is on the top of the figure
-* :ghpull:`10942`: Make active param in CheckBottons optional, default false
-* :ghpull:`10943`: Allow pie textprops to take alignment and rotation arguments
-* :ghpull:`10780`: Fix scaling of RadioButtons
-* :ghpull:`10938`: Fix two undefined names
-* :ghpull:`10685`: fix plt.show doesn't warn if a non-GUI backend
-* :ghpull:`10689`: Declare global variables that are created elsewhere
+* :ghpull:`10937`: Backport PR #10935 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`10935`: FIX: Postscript allow empty markers
 * :ghpull:`10858`: FIX: ioerror font cache, second try
-* :ghpull:`10898`: Replace "matplotlibrc" by "rcParams" in the docs where applicable.
-* :ghpull:`10926`: Some more removals of deprecated APIs.
-* :ghpull:`10918`: Use function signatures in boilerplate.py.
-* :ghpull:`10914`: Changed pie charts default shape to circle and added tests
-* :ghpull:`10930`: Update definition of area in scatter examples
-* :ghpull:`10864`: ENH: Stop mangling default figure file name if file exists
-* :ghpull:`10562`: Remove deprecated code in image.py
+* :ghpull:`10929`: Fix rctemplate tests when user config file exists.
+* :ghpull:`10927`: Backport PR #10919 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`10919`: Fix overflow when resizing path-to-string buffer.
-* :ghpull:`10798`: FIX: axes limits reverting to automatic when sharing
-* :ghpull:`10485`: Remove the 'hold' kwarg from codebase
-* :ghpull:`10459`: Move some examples out of examples/api
-* :ghpull:`10913`: Rely a bit more on rc_context.
-* :ghpull:`10299`: Invalidate texmanager cache when any text.latex.* rc changes.
-* :ghpull:`10906`: Deprecate ImageComparisonTest.
-* :ghpull:`10904`: Improve docstring of clabel()
-* :ghpull:`10912`: remove unused matplotlib.testing import
-* :ghpull:`10692`: Update afm docs and internal data structures
-* :ghpull:`10896`: Update INSTALL.rst.
-* :ghpull:`10905`: Inline knownfailureif.
-* :ghpull:`10907`: No need to mark (unicode) strings as u"foo" anymore.
-* :ghpull:`10903`: Py3fy testing machinery.
-* :ghpull:`10901`: Remove Py2/3 portable code guide.
-* :ghpull:`10900`: Remove some APIs deprecated in mpl2.1.
-* :ghpull:`10902`: Kill some Py2 docs.
-* :ghpull:`10894`: Update install instructions for win
-* :ghpull:`10892`: Replace suggested labels with good first issue label
-* :ghpull:`10884`: Style fixes to setupext.py.
-* :ghpull:`10865`: DOC: use OO-ish interface in image, contour, field examples
-* :ghpull:`8479`: FIX markerfacecolor / mfc not in rcparams
-* :ghpull:`10314`: setattr context manager.
-* :ghpull:`10158`: Allow mplot3d rasterization; adjacent cleanups.
-* :ghpull:`10871`: Rely on rglob support rather than os.walk.
-* :ghpull:`10878`:  Change hardcoded brackets for Toolbar message
 * :ghpull:`10877`: Fix invalid escape sequence in docstring.
-* :ghpull:`10708`: Py3fy webagg/nbagg.
-* :ghpull:`10862`: py3ify table.py and correct some docstrings
-* :ghpull:`10870`: Restore main doc page <title>.
-* :ghpull:`10810`: Fix for plt.plot() does not support structured arrays as data= kwarg
+* :ghpull:`10868`: Backport PR #10867 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`10867`: MNT: move bz2 back to function level
-* :ghpull:`10861`: More python3 cleanup
-* :ghpull:`9903`: ENH: adjustable colorbar ticks
-* :ghpull:`10831`: Minor docstring updates on binning related plot functions
+* :ghpull:`10860`: Backport PR #10856 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`10856`: Fix xkcd style garbage collection.
-* :ghpull:`9571`: Remove LaTeX checking in setup.py.
-* :ghpull:`10097`: Reset extents in RectangleSelector when not interactive on press.
-* :ghpull:`10686`: fix BboxConnectorPatch does not show facecolor
-* :ghpull:`10801`: Fix undefined name.  Add animation tests.
-* :ghpull:`10796`: Added descriptions for line bars and markers examples
-* :ghpull:`10846`: Unsixification
-* :ghpull:`10852`: Update docs re: pygobject in venv.
-* :ghpull:`10847`: Py3fy axis.py.
+* :ghpull:`10853`: Backport PR #10662 on branch v2.2.x
 * :ghpull:`10662`: Update docs on Axes.set_prop_cycle
-* :ghpull:`10834`: Minor docstring updates on spectral plot functions
-* :ghpull:`10849`: DOC: CL make pcolormesh calls consistent
-* :ghpull:`10778`: wx_compat is no more.
-* :ghpull:`10609`: More wx cleanup.
-* :ghpull:`10826`: Py3fy dates.py.
-* :ghpull:`10837`: Correctly display error when running setup.py test.
-* :ghpull:`10838`: Don't use private attribute in tk example.  Fix Toolbar class rename.
-* :ghpull:`10835`: DOC: Make colorbar tutorial examples look like colorbars.
-* :ghpull:`10823`: Add some basic smoketesting for webagg (and wx).
-* :ghpull:`10828`: Add print_rgba to backend_cairo.
 * :ghpull:`10833`: Propagate marker antialias setting to GraphicsContext.
-* :ghpull:`10830`: Make function signatures more explicit
-* :ghpull:`10829`: Use long color names for default rcParams
-* :ghpull:`10374`: Update layout of sidebar in documentation
-* :ghpull:`10799`: DOC: make legend docstring interpolated
-* :ghpull:`10818`: Deprecate vestigial Annotation.arrow.
-* :ghpull:`10817`: Add test to imread from url.
-* :ghpull:`10696`: Simplify venv docs.
-* :ghpull:`10724`: Py3fication of unicode.
-* :ghpull:`10815`: API: shift deprecation of TempCache class to 3.0
-* :ghpull:`10725`: FIX/TST constrained_layout remove test8 duplication
-* :ghpull:`10805`: FIX: properties and setp on Table instances
 * :ghpull:`10806`: MNT: catch more illegal '\'
-* :ghpull:`10296`: Improve docstrings of pyplot axis-related functions
-* :ghpull:`10278`: improve docstring of Axes.loglog, Axes.semilogx, Axes.semilogy
-* :ghpull:`10705`: FIX: enable extend kwargs with log scale colorbar
-* :ghpull:`10400`: numpydoc-ify art3d docstrings
-* :ghpull:`10723`: repr style fixes.
-* :ghpull:`10592`: Rely on generalized * and ** unpackings where possible.
-* :ghpull:`10787`: Fix offsetbox expand mode
-* :ghpull:`9475`: Declare property aliases in a single place
-* :ghpull:`10793`: A hodgepodge of Py3 & style fixes.
-* :ghpull:`10781`: Mention Jupyter in matplotlib usage
-* :ghpull:`10794`: fixed comment typo
-* :ghpull:`10768`: Fix crash when imshow encounters longdouble data
-* :ghpull:`10774`: Remove dead wx testing code.
-* :ghpull:`10756`: Fixes png showing inconsistent inset_axes position
-* :ghpull:`10773`: Consider alpha channel from RGBA color of text for SVG backend text opacity rendering
-* :ghpull:`10772`: API: check locator and formatter args when passed
-* :ghpull:`10713`: Implemented support for 'markevery' in prop_cycle
-* :ghpull:`10751`: make centre_baseline legal for Text.set_verticalalignment
-* :ghpull:`10771`: FIX/TST OS X builds
-* :ghpull:`10754`: Fix image fmt detection for Path input.
-* :ghpull:`10739`: FIX: ffmpeg logging level
-* :ghpull:`10726`: FIX: re-instate verbose alias
-* :ghpull:`10752`: Update copyright date to 2018
-* :ghpull:`10742`: FIX: reorder linewidth setting before linestyle
-* :ghpull:`10714`: sys.platform is normalized to "linux" on Py3.
-* :ghpull:`10542`: Minor cleanup: PEP8, PEP257
-* :ghpull:`10636`: Remove some wx version checks.
-* :ghpull:`10736`: Avoid narrowing conversion in image_wrapper on 32-bit.
-* :ghpull:`10731`: Corrected mistitling on the annotation tutorial page
-* :ghpull:`10734`: Fix logging level type
-* :ghpull:`10728`: Set data limits for Axes3DSubplot.plot when zdir=y or zdir=x #5742
-* :ghpull:`10721`: sanitize norm extrema to be floats
-* :ghpull:`10710`: BUG: Fix UnboundLocalError in contour labelling
-* :ghpull:`10703`: Fix signature docstring in _png extension.
-* :ghpull:`10683`: Convert Tick attributes to numpydoc
-* :ghpull:`10690`: Improve lazy-ticks realization.
-* :ghpull:`10697`: Remove special-casing of _remove_method when pickling.
-* :ghpull:`10701`: Autoadd removal version to deprecation message.
-* :ghpull:`10699`: Remove incorrect warning in gca().
-* :ghpull:`10564`: Nested classes and instancemethods are directly picklable on Py3.5+.
-* :ghpull:`10107`: Fix stay_span to reset onclick in SpanSelector.
-* :ghpull:`10480`: Filter out invalid value warnings in log scaling
-* :ghpull:`10596`: Switch to per-file locking.
-* :ghpull:`10681`: Fix tk icon loading.
-* :ghpull:`10532`: Py3fy backend_pgf.
-* :ghpull:`10618`: Fixes #10501.  python3 support and pep8 in jpl_units
-* :ghpull:`10652`: Some py3fication for matplotlib/__init__, setupext.
-* :ghpull:`10522`: Py3fy font_manager.
-* :ghpull:`10666`: More figure-related doc updates
-* :ghpull:`10507`: Remove Python 2 code from C extensions
-* :ghpull:`10426`: Delete deprecated backends
-* :ghpull:`9814`: figure_enter_event uses now LocationEvent instead of Event. Fix issue #9812.
-* :ghpull:`10658`: FIX Speed up constrained layout
-* :ghpull:`9918`: Remove old nose testing code
-* :ghpull:`10672`: Deprecation fixes.
-* :ghpull:`10608`: Remove most APIs deprecated in 2.1.
-* :ghpull:`10599`: Axes doc updates
-* :ghpull:`10665`: Highlight deprecations in the docs
-* :ghpull:`10653`: Mock is in stdlib in Py3.
-* :ghpull:`10603`: Remove workarounds for numpy<1.10.
-* :ghpull:`10660`: Work towards removing reuse-of-axes-on-collision.
-* :ghpull:`10364`: Workaround property list indent
-* :ghpull:`10661`: Homebrew python is now python 3
-* :ghpull:`10613`: FIX: resolution of imshow for floats and 2-D greyscale PIL images
-* :ghpull:`10638`: WIP: ENH: autodecode pandas timestamps
 * :ghpull:`10595`: Improve Figure docstrings
-* :ghpull:`10656`: Minor fixes to event handling docs.
-* :ghpull:`10629`: FIX/ENH CL: Allow single parent colorbar w/ gridspec layout
-* :ghpull:`10635`: Simplify setupext by using globs.
-* :ghpull:`10632`: Support markers from Paths that consist of one line segment
-* :ghpull:`10558`: Remove if six.PY2 code paths from boilerplate.py
-* :ghpull:`10645`: Add mplcairo to 3rdparty docs.
-* :ghpull:`10640`: Fix extra and missing spaces in constrainedlayout warning.
-* :ghpull:`10631`: Convert NaT to nan in date2num
-* :ghpull:`10623`: Fix for failing bar plot w/ units
-* :ghpull:`10622`: make seaborn great again on Matplotlib-2.2
-* :ghpull:`10624`: Some trivial py3fications.
-* :ghpull:`10548`: Implement PdfPages for backend pgf
-* :ghpull:`10625`: Fixes to constrainedlayout tutorial markup.
-* :ghpull:`10614`: Use np.stack instead of list(zip()) in colorbar.py.
-* :ghpull:`10621`: Cleanup and py3fy backend_gtk3.
-* :ghpull:`10568`: Prevent ZeroDivisionError when devicePixelRatio() returns 0
-* :ghpull:`10615`: More style fixes.
-* :ghpull:`10604`: Minor style fixes.
-* :ghpull:`10531`: Update matplotlibrc.template
-* :ghpull:`10565`: Strip python 2 code from subprocess.py
-* :ghpull:`10605`: Bump a tolerance in test_axisartist_floating_axes.
-* :ghpull:`10554`: Make ax3d.get_xlim() return a tuple, as 2D axes do.
-* :ghpull:`7853`: Use exact types for Py_BuildValue.
-* :ghpull:`10594`: FIX: colorbar check for constrained layout
-* :ghpull:`10570`: Fix check_shared in test_subplots.
-* :ghpull:`10581`: Might be ``figure.constrained_layout.use``
-* :ghpull:`10569`: Various style fixes.
-* :ghpull:`10593`: Use 'yield from' where appropriate.
-* :ghpull:`10563`: Add some mlab alternatives
-* :ghpull:`10588`: Bugfix in axes3d not raising an exception
-* :ghpull:`10518`: Fix Wx inconsistencies
-* :ghpull:`10428`: Fix wx canvas type injection.
-* :ghpull:`10577`: Minor simplification to Figure.__getstate__ logic.
-* :ghpull:`10578`: Fix eventplot exception due to uninitiliazed ``_is_horizontal`` attribute
-* :ghpull:`10552`: Fix issue with clf not clearing constrainedlayout
-* :ghpull:`10549`: Source typos
-* :ghpull:`10525`: Convert six.moves.xrange() to range() for Python 3
-* :ghpull:`10551`: Simplify rst cross references by omitting the shortener ~ when not needed
-* :ghpull:`10538`: FIX: TypeError when using offset box in expand mode with tightlayout
-* :ghpull:`10541`: More argumentless (py3) super()
-* :ghpull:`10539`: TST: Replace assert_equal with plain asserts.
-* :ghpull:`10534`: Modernize cbook.get_realpath_and_stat.
-* :ghpull:`10524`: Remove unused private _StringFuncParser.
-* :ghpull:`10470`: Remove Python 2 code from setup
-* :ghpull:`10429`: Fix wxcairo byteorder.
-* :ghpull:`10462`: Fix add_subplot documentation regarding args
-* :ghpull:`10484`: Add libm when building Qhull.
-* :ghpull:`10509`: Move some logging calls down to DEBUG level.
-* :ghpull:`10528`: py3fy examples
-* :ghpull:`10520`: Py3fy mathtext.py.
-* :ghpull:`10527`: Switch to argumentless (py3) super().
-* :ghpull:`10523`: The current master branch is now python 3 only.
-* :ghpull:`10519`: _macosx.m fails to compile on Mac OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard - Issue #10516
-* :ghpull:`10432`: Use some new Python3 types
-* :ghpull:`10475`: Use HTTP Secure for matplotlib.org
-* :ghpull:`10383`: Fix some C++ warnings
-* :ghpull:`10478`: Separate plots using #### in xkcd.py
-* :ghpull:`10505`: Remove backport of which()
-* :ghpull:`10486`: BUG: sscanf did not parse arguments in _tkagg.cpp
-* :ghpull:`10469`: FIX: DPI inconsistency of draggable legend
-* :ghpull:`10483`: Remove backports.functools_lru_cache
-* :ghpull:`10451`: renaming duplicated file names
-* :ghpull:`10492`: Avoid UnboundLocalError in drag_pan.
-* :ghpull:`10473`: DOC: Expending a bit about the "tableau-colorblind10" entry in What's new
-* :ghpull:`10491`: Simplify Mac builds on Travis
-* :ghpull:`10490`: DOC: added bounds and more description to margins 
-* :ghpull:`10481`: Remove python 2 compatibility code from dviread
-* :ghpull:`10447`: Remove Python 2 compatibility code from backend_pdf.py
-* :ghpull:`10468`: Replace is_numlike by isinstance(..., numbers.Number).
-* :ghpull:`10454`: Set packet_ends = None before using in dviread.py
-* :ghpull:`10439`: mkdir is in the stdlib in Py3.
-* :ghpull:`10431`: Some font-related numpydoc changes
-* :ghpull:`10467`: update example docstring of afm.py
-* :ghpull:`10460`: DOC: remove sphinx markup that confsed SG
-* :ghpull:`10461`: fix broken link in lib/matplotlib/dates.py comment
-* :ghpull:`10463`: DOC: Add cividis to the tutorial about colormaps
-* :ghpull:`10392`: FIX: make set_text(None) keep string empty instead of "None"
-* :ghpull:`10450`: DOC: add active state to install docs
-* :ghpull:`10425`: API: only support python 3.5+
-* :ghpull:`10440`: Add canonical link to webpages
-* :ghpull:`10444`: DOC: s/xasis/xaxis/ in whats_new.rst
-* :ghpull:`10441`: Fix doc build error.
-* :ghpull:`10422`: Define RecursionError for Python versions < 3.5
-* :ghpull:`10437`: Add docstring to set_interpolation
-* :ghpull:`10427`: Cleanup old print statements
-* :ghpull:`10414`: Doc merge up api whats new
-* :ghpull:`10416`: Update some wx examples
-* :ghpull:`10423`: DOC/STY: whitespace and docstring fixes
-* :ghpull:`10208`: Add some wx specific tools for ToolManager
-* :ghpull:`9114`: Fix PdfPages+cairo.
-* :ghpull:`9074`: Don't abort on FT2Font weakref.
-* :ghpull:`10274`: doc: fix layout of tables within parameter lists
-* :ghpull:`10421`: remove string escapes from matplotlibrc.template
-* :ghpull:`9783`: Categorical: Unsorted, String only, fix overwrite bug
-* :ghpull:`10420`: Fix some broken links
-* :ghpull:`10395`: WxCairo backend.
-* :ghpull:`10415`: fix bug #3690: don't call evt.Skip() when window has just been destroyed
-* :ghpull:`10352`: Explicitely destroy created wx PaintDC
-* :ghpull:`10377`: FigureCanvasWx/Agg fixed size
-* :ghpull:`10399`: Avoid double draw in qt5cairo.
-* :ghpull:`9871`: Cividis colormap added with short description in whats_new
-* :ghpull:`10413`: DOC: Fix typos in section names.
-* :ghpull:`10407`: TST/FIX twinx and twiny w/ constrainedlayout
-* :ghpull:`10409`: Remove unused _is_list_like.  Move six import up.
-* :ghpull:`10412`: GTK backend deprecations
-* :ghpull:`10385`: Fix deprecations in examples
-* :ghpull:`10389`: import six
-* :ghpull:`10405`: Minor updates to unit doc
-* :ghpull:`10366`: Axes doc datanotes
-* :ghpull:`10402`: MNT: remove example based on Enthought Traits package
-* :ghpull:`7545`: Axisartist testing + bugfixes
-* :ghpull:`10390`: file() was removed in Python 3
-* :ghpull:`10394`: Wrong explanation in docstring for add_subplot fixed
-* :ghpull:`10393`: OOification of the new examples from #10306
-* :ghpull:`10306`: Add ytick label right/left properties in matplotlibrc
-* :ghpull:`9081`: cell returned when added to Table
-* :ghpull:`10387`: TST: Small fix to constrainedlayout7 test (removed image)
-* :ghpull:`9708`: Cleanup doc/conf.py & local sphinx extensions
-* :ghpull:`10370`: Clean up units.py
-* :ghpull:`9934`: MEP22 implementation for QT backend
-* :ghpull:`9151`: Deprecate mlab functions
-* :ghpull:`10210`: qt{4,5}cairo backend: the minimal version.
-* :ghpull:`10379`: FIX: re-jigger deprecation of rcParams using machinery in __init__
-* :ghpull:`10276`: improve docstring of Axes.step
-* :ghpull:`10371`: Fix constrainedlayout uneven grid specs
-* :ghpull:`10220`: Clip RGB data to valid range for imshow
-* :ghpull:`9991`: MAINT: Use vectorization in plot_trisurf, simplifying greatly
-* :ghpull:`10363`: Fix to allow both old and new style wx versions
-* :ghpull:`10309`: Improve code generated by boilerplate.py
-* :ghpull:`10367`: constrained layout guide typos
-* :ghpull:`9082`: [MRG] Constrained_layout  (geometry manager)
-* :ghpull:`10359`: Add attributes section to ColorbarBase doc
-* :ghpull:`10362`: Switch to using StrictVersion in wx_compat.py
-* :ghpull:`10353`: Fix syntax highlighting of sample bash and bibtex in rst markup.
-* :ghpull:`10354`: DOC: clarify that clim is not a valid kwarg if vmin/vmax are used
-* :ghpull:`10355`: Fix typo in tutorial; & change mention of Qt4 to Qt5 (new default).
-* :ghpull:`10351`: FIX: deprecate qt4/5 rcparams
-* :ghpull:`10347`: Hide the backend.qt4/5 rcparam deprecation warning in test suite.
-* :ghpull:`10348`: When latex fails, make sure it does not write a dvi.
-* :ghpull:`10226`: Custom :rcparam: role.
-* :ghpull:`10335`: Update some image_comparison tests.
-* :ghpull:`10282`: Deprecate the backend.qt{4,5} rcParams.
-* :ghpull:`10281`: Move down logging levels in mpl/__init__ to DEBUG.
-* :ghpull:`10337`: Deprecate backend_tkagg.AxisMenu.
-* :ghpull:`10242`: Fix InvertedLog10Transform.inverted() 
-* :ghpull:`10331`: Remove unnecessary calls to float() before division.
-* :ghpull:`10327`: Don't call np.identity() in transforms.
-* :ghpull:`10325`: Minor improvements to quadmesh_demo.
-* :ghpull:`10340`: update set_drawstyle
-* :ghpull:`10333`: Remove some commented out debug prints.
-* :ghpull:`10301`: Deprecate truncating saved unsized anims to 100 frames.
-* :ghpull:`10332`: Join strings instead of adding them.
-* :ghpull:`10330`: Shorten a long and now outdated comment.
-* :ghpull:`10326`: Various examples updates.
-* :ghpull:`10328`: Use deg2rad/rad2deg where appropriate.
-* :ghpull:`10324`: Linewrap backend_pgf to 79 characters.
-* :ghpull:`10033`: Improve handling of shared axes with specified aspect ratio
-* :ghpull:`10310`: Add libdl on Unix-like systems.
-* :ghpull:`10320`: DOC: Tiny fixes, and possible overhaul, of the two scales example in the gallery
-* :ghpull:`10313`: Make commented ACCEPTS statements inline comments
-* :ghpull:`10316`: TST FIX pyqt5 5.9
-* :ghpull:`10302`: Alternate implementation of lazy ticks.
-* :ghpull:`9652`: Align x and y labels between axes
-* :ghpull:`10292`: Unset the canvas manager when saving the figure.
-* :ghpull:`10303`: Simplify Axis.get_{major,minor}_ticks.
-* :ghpull:`10295`: Pass options to ps2pdf using ``-foo#bar`` instead of ``-foo=bar``.
-* :ghpull:`10311`: Clean up next what's new files
-* :ghpull:`10224`: improve docstring of Axes.errorbar
-* :ghpull:`10308`: Switch the lasso selector to use mpl event handling, not input().
-* :ghpull:`10206`: Don't convert numbers plotted on an axis with units
-* :ghpull:`10305`: Make the horizontal bar appear in AnchoredArtists example.
-* :ghpull:`10289`: Ensure image scale factors are scalars
-* :ghpull:`10284`: Allow ACCEPTS as ReST comment in docstrings
-* :ghpull:`10266`: More misc. typos
-* :ghpull:`10283`: Deprecate obsolete 'plugins.directory' rcparam.
-* :ghpull:`10286`: Update multi_image example.
-* :ghpull:`10240`: Pillow animation writer.
-* :ghpull:`10279`: Add 'val' attribute to slider doc
-* :ghpull:`10280`: Update writing docs concerning explicit parameter lists
-* :ghpull:`10231`: Support PathLike inputs.
-* :ghpull:`9952`: Errorbars accept marker_options and follow prop_cycle
-* :ghpull:`10271`: whats_new.rst: "C" must be capitalized in "CreationDate"
-* :ghpull:`9911`: Make _get_rgba_face actually always return a RGBA.
-* :ghpull:`10200`: Catch normed warning in tests
-* :ghpull:`10219`: Improve transform docstrings
-* :ghpull:`10076`: improve sub-second datetime plotting and documentation
-* :ghpull:`8512`: DOC: add quickstart section to the gridspec tutorial
-* :ghpull:`10168`: Minor update to multiprocessing example.
-* :ghpull:`10154`: improve Axes.stem docstring
-* :ghpull:`10203`: Update docs, in particular for backends.
-* :ghpull:`9884`: DOC: re-organize devel/documenting_mpl.rst
-* :ghpull:`10243`: improve docstring of Axes.scatter
-* :ghpull:`10250`: Minor refactor of backend_ps.
-* :ghpull:`10261`: Some comment typo fixes
-* :ghpull:`10125`: Cleanup animation examples
-* :ghpull:`10197`: AFM fonts don't have .postscript_name, but .get_fontname().
-* :ghpull:`10263`: FIX: (re-allow) legend OrderedDict handles and labels...
-* :ghpull:`10257`: BLD: use correct method to get installation hints
-* :ghpull:`10259`: Clean up example section titles
-* :ghpull:`10254`: Quick and dirty revert of busy cursor for 2.1.2.
-* :ghpull:`9570`: Allow setting MATPLOTLIBRC by process substitution.
-* :ghpull:`10247`: Simplify _get_xdg_cache_dir in setupext.
-* :ghpull:`10256`: Remove reference to ignored rcParam, nbagg.transparent
-* :ghpull:`10133`: FIX: Image scaling for large dynamic range ints
-* :ghpull:`10077`: Use fuzzy comparison for stroke join determination.
-* :ghpull:`10246`: improve docstring of Axes.plot_date
-* :ghpull:`10233`: Move unrendered docstrings to private attributes.
-* :ghpull:`10010`: FIX: Check for fontsize smaller than 1 pt and round up
-* :ghpull:`10248`: Minor cleanups.
-* :ghpull:`9356`: COMPAT: use tkagg backend on PyPy
-* :ghpull:`10188`: Doc timer docs
-* :ghpull:`10232`: Unify "blank space" and "white space" to "space".
-* :ghpull:`10138`: Clean up _axes.py docstrings
-* :ghpull:`10228`: Add closing quotes to embedded python in rst markup.
-* :ghpull:`10217`: TST: Don't use set -e.
-* :ghpull:`10214`: DOC: fix '\' markup for sphinx and py37
-* :ghpull:`10213`: Add missing import to backend_tkagg.
-* :ghpull:`9275`: Tkagg fixes
-* :ghpull:`10204`: Cleanup backend_cairo.
-* :ghpull:`10195`: Wrap a few overly long lines.
-* :ghpull:`10190`: improve docstring of Axes.plot
-* :ghpull:`10086`: Deprecate support for "svg fonts" font embedding.
-* :ghpull:`10119`: Simplify gridspec.py.
-* :ghpull:`10193`: Handle Tick gridline properties like other Tick properties
-* :ghpull:`10182`: improve docstrings for Axes.bar, Axes.barh, Axes.stackplot
-* :ghpull:`10186`: improve docstrings of Axes.fill_between and Axes.fill_betweenx
-* :ghpull:`10181`: Cleanup texmanager.
-* :ghpull:`10192`: remove evt.Skip() from EVT_PAINT handler
-* :ghpull:`10191`: Minor refactoring of docstring formatting in preprocess_data
-* :ghpull:`10196`: Remove most instances of pep8 E502 (redundant backslashes).
-* :ghpull:`10139`: Improve legend_handler docstrings
-* :ghpull:`10198`: Improve hist2d returns doc
-* :ghpull:`10146`: Updated what's new entry for color comparision method
-* :ghpull:`10184`: Remove executable bit from example.
-* :ghpull:`10180`: Rebase of #8504
-* :ghpull:`10178`: Simplify pandas fixture.
-* :ghpull:`10124`: TST: centralize and standardize pandas imports
-* :ghpull:`10175`: Agg: When a single Text uses usetex, don't pass it through mathtext parser
-* :ghpull:`10166`: Hide fully transparent text in PS output.
-* :ghpull:`10150`: Docstring updates for ``Axes.fill`` and ``Axes.pie``
-* :ghpull:`10172`: Slight improvements to contour.py doc
-* :ghpull:`10159`: improve Axes.broken_barh docstring
-* :ghpull:`10169`: Make relim() take images into account too.
-* :ghpull:`10171`: Replace normed with density in examples
-* :ghpull:`10046`: Add missing decode() in svg font embedding path.
-* :ghpull:`9317`: On 2.7, run tests on oldest documented supported pytest and pytest-cov.
-* :ghpull:`10091`: Replace "True | False" by "bool" in the docs.
-* :ghpull:`10129`: Fix multiple zero labels when using SymLogNorm
-* :ghpull:`10085`: Move missing font message to debug level
-* :ghpull:`10155`: Use keyword arguments for setp() in examples
-* :ghpull:`10152`: DOC: update the datetime64 HowTo
-* :ghpull:`9645`: expose Path.contains_points as a method of Patch
-* :ghpull:`10093`: Some docstring fixes and change a raise type
-* :ghpull:`10141`: Zoom out to rectangle is not experimental anymore.
-* :ghpull:`10087`: Update docs on installing GUI toolkits in virtualenvs.
-* :ghpull:`10137`: Remove gen rst
-* :ghpull:`10126`: Move axisartist examples to their folder.
-* :ghpull:`10131`: cairo backends do not support blitting; mark them as such.
-* :ghpull:`10134`: Minor style cleanups.
-* :ghpull:`10127`: Use subplots() instead of axes_grid in suitable examples.
-* :ghpull:`9938`: Cleanup imports.
-* :ghpull:`10116`: Add simple image test for 3D tricontour and tricontourf
-* :ghpull:`10090`: Minor simplification to _pylab_helpers.
-* :ghpull:`10089`: Deprecate passing strings instead of booleans to control tick state (and other states).
-* :ghpull:`9975`: Remove some test warnings
-* :ghpull:`10084`: DOC: Better error when float on datetime axis
-* :ghpull:`10092`: Minor cleanups to the cairo backend.
-* :ghpull:`10120`: Minor simplification to legend.py.
-* :ghpull:`10101`: Add origin as sticky point for radial axes
-* :ghpull:`10104`: Minor fixes to backend_template.
-* :ghpull:`9619`: FIX: non-existing variable
-* :ghpull:`10020`: Let Container reprs report the actual subtype.
-* :ghpull:`9959`: DOC: Update color tutorial to explain alpha
-* :ghpull:`10094`: replace six.next -> next (available since Py2.6).
-* :ghpull:`10103`: Simplify Colormap.__call__.
-* :ghpull:`10102`: Remove list(zip(...)) when unnecessary.
-* :ghpull:`10106`: Clean up some widget docstrings
-* :ghpull:`10108`: Dedent docs in contributing.rst bullet/numbered lists.
-* :ghpull:`10096`: Logging and exception messages cleanup.
-* :ghpull:`10095`: Remove some debugging code.
-* :ghpull:`10100`: STY: fix line length
-* :ghpull:`9316`: Removal of deprecated features for 2.2
-* :ghpull:`10098`: Doc update: Explain what drawing a line does in RectangularSelector.
-* :ghpull:`9997`: Fix empty plot with drawstyle="steps"
-* :ghpull:`10065`: Add version to documentation header
-* :ghpull:`10028`: Remove some deprecated rcParams.
-* :ghpull:`10024`: Deprecate nbagg.transparent rcParam.
-* :ghpull:`10074`: Prefer vendored qhull if sys-wide version can't be determined.
-* :ghpull:`10044`: Remove some uses of unicode_literals
-* :ghpull:`10055`: Documentation mistake in pyplot.py corrected
-* :ghpull:`10064`: FIX: remove repeated label legend logic
-* :ghpull:`10052`: Use consistent float-to-str formatting for tests with units
-* :ghpull:`10032`: Add method for comparing two colors
-* :ghpull:`10030`: Fix using .get_color() and friends in labels handling
-* :ghpull:`10031`: Fix legend color comparisions
-* :ghpull:`10021`: Cleanup issue template.
-* :ghpull:`10026`: Fix scatter docstring markup
-* :ghpull:`10043`: Update FreeType hashes
-* :ghpull:`10027`: Improve errorbar returns doc
-* :ghpull:`10019`: TST: test mlab cohere
-* :ghpull:`10025`: Remove badges from website sidebar
-* :ghpull:`10000`: Fix figure.colorbar() with axes keywords
-* :ghpull:`9999`: improve legend docstring
-* :ghpull:`9514`: Convert index.html and citing.html to rst.
-* :ghpull:`10006`: add mpl-template and plotnine to 3rd party doc
-* :ghpull:`7945`: fix StixSans mapping bug
-* :ghpull:`10014`: FIX: pass nonposx/y args through loglog etc
-* :ghpull:`10004`: Fixed critical typo in mlab.cohere
-* :ghpull:`9989`: FIX: clabel manual spacing was incorrect
-* :ghpull:`9998`: Fix scatter_piecharts example
-* :ghpull:`9956`: BUG: clear events before destroying windows in tkagg
-* :ghpull:`9949`: fix docstring in ToolManager
-* :ghpull:`9641`: Implement Qt4 backend by fully reexporting Qt5 backend.
-* :ghpull:`9932`: Support pgi as alternative gobject bindings.
-* :ghpull:`9986`: Remove unused import in toolmanager example
-* :ghpull:`9968`: Deprecate pyplot.axes with an Axes argument
-* :ghpull:`9962`: toolbar checkbutton fix bug in tkinter python3.6
-* :ghpull:`9981`: DOC: Add alpha compositing note to "matplotlib.pyplot.imshow" definition.
-* :ghpull:`9969`: Numpydoc conversion and clarification of some AxesBase docstrings
-* :ghpull:`9946`: Clean up legend docstrings
-* :ghpull:`9951`: Improve documentation on Axes position
-* :ghpull:`9964`: Update Axes docs on aspect-related methods
-* :ghpull:`9385`: Bump test coverage of Qt5 UI.
-* :ghpull:`9958`: FIX: put Nav Home view back inside pan/zoom
-* :ghpull:`9945`: Only label vertical lines in acorr
-* :ghpull:`9930`: Cleanup pyplot.axes()
-* :ghpull:`9942`: Minor doc formatting cleanups in pyplot
-* :ghpull:`9933`: Fix Rectange.get_bbox()
-* :ghpull:`9929`: In tests, remove unused imports and sort some remaining imports.
-* :ghpull:`9928`: Cleanup delaxes()
-* :ghpull:`9750`: Use command keys for window shortcuts in Qt on OSX
-* :ghpull:`9072`: Use left/right top/bottom instead of width/height in Rectangle
-* :ghpull:`9917`: Unify (parametrize) test_composite across backends.
-* :ghpull:`9919`: In unit/memleak, write to in-memory buffer instead of file.
-* :ghpull:`9916`: backend_agg cleanup.
-* :ghpull:`9915`: Deprecate unused FigureManagerBase.show_popup.
-* :ghpull:`9825`: Deprecate Artist.onRemove, Artist.hitlist.
-* :ghpull:`9513`: Switch to makefile-based doc build.
-* :ghpull:`9865`: less_simple_linear_interpolation can be replaced by np.interp.
-* :ghpull:`9904`: Deprecate unused ContourLabeler.get_real_label_width.
-* :ghpull:`9881`: Polar tick fixes
-* :ghpull:`9028`: Modified rrulewraper to handle timezone-aware datetimes.
-* :ghpull:`9900`: DOC: Updates multiprocessing example.
-* :ghpull:`9907`: DOC: (subjectively) nicer annotated barchart example
-* :ghpull:`9448`: Fix instance of 'RendererPS' has no 'tex' member
-* :ghpull:`9899`: make SubplotTool into a modal dialog, keep ref to SubplotTool
-* :ghpull:`9889`: Deprecate 'normed' kwarg to hist
-* :ghpull:`9421`: Improve reprs of transforms.
-* :ghpull:`9897`: changed line to 'alias for set_multialignment'
-* :ghpull:`9875`: Additions to the documentation guide
-* :ghpull:`9878`: TST: Lock pytest to 3.2.5 until 3.3.1 released
-* :ghpull:`9805`: Update documentation guide
-* :ghpull:`9836`: ENH/MacOS Allow shift modifiers to key events
-* :ghpull:`9860`: Vectorize and document simple_linear_interpolation.
-* :ghpull:`9869`: Clean tmpdir at exit.
-* :ghpull:`9781`: Convert LineCollection docstring to numpydoc
-* :ghpull:`9862`: PRF: Don't used MaskedArray in Aitoff transform.
-* :ghpull:`9854`: Exclude dviread.Text from the documentation.
-* :ghpull:`9861`: Remove some unused imports; reword/remarkup some docstrings.
-* :ghpull:`9857`: documentation: fix url for pillow
-* :ghpull:`9811`: dynamically finding the backend preferred format for button images
-* :ghpull:`9841`: ENH: make interval_multiples work for years
-* :ghpull:`9826`: Deprecate column cycling when plot() inputs have nonmatching shapes.
-* :ghpull:`9852`: Simplify the pyplot animation demo.
-* :ghpull:`9853`: Move image_slices_viewer example from animation to event_handling.
-* :ghpull:`9848`: Fix typo in axis api doc
-* :ghpull:`9846`: Move enumeration of text tutorial into table.
-* :ghpull:`9827`: DOC: add more tutorial to text/text_intro
-* :ghpull:`9773`: MNT: Make sure AppVeyor fails if tests fail
-* :ghpull:`9806`: Remove call to nonexistent FT2Font.get_fontsize.
-* :ghpull:`9816`: ENH: add pad kwarg to set_title
-* :ghpull:`9817`: API: do not truncate svg size to integer points
-* :ghpull:`9599`: Unify the three Qt5 embedding examples.
-* :ghpull:`9803`: Add links to python's strftime method
-* :ghpull:`9807`: Simplify test_tinypages.
-* :ghpull:`9790`: Link GridSpec docs to SubplotParams paramter descriptions
-* :ghpull:`9311`: Update docs on docs.
-* :ghpull:`9794`: DOC: for datetime64 support
-* :ghpull:`9779`: ENH: support np.datenum64 in dates.py
-* :ghpull:`9654`: Correctly convert units for a stacked histogram
-* :ghpull:`9670`: Make tick_left/right keep labels off if they are already off
-* :ghpull:`9723`: ENH: Catch masked array and invalid x, y to pcolormesh
-* :ghpull:`9766`: Fix mixed_subplots example
-* :ghpull:`9255`: New color blind-friendly color cycle
-* :ghpull:`9756`: DOC removing pyplot_annotate.py
-* :ghpull:`9759`: blocking_input: Fix "manager" attr check
-* :ghpull:`9313`: [MRG] Replace verbose class with standard logging library
-* :ghpull:`9743`: FIX: check if contour level in format dictionary, or return a default
-* :ghpull:`9753`: FIX: Detrending before windowing _spectral_helper
-* :ghpull:`9752`: DOC: example demo_parasite_axes2.py broken on 2.1.0
-* :ghpull:`9587`: Remove unused example with no plot
-* :ghpull:`9715`: Change set_figwidth/height to be consistent w/ set_size_inches
-* :ghpull:`9657`: Add API note about MovieWriterRegistry exception
-* :ghpull:`9748`: Reword subplot() doc.
-* :ghpull:`9379`: ENH: Added __repr__ for Figure
-* :ghpull:`9724`: Fix PDFpages bug
-* :ghpull:`9726`: FIX/TST: update tests for pandas 0.21
-* :ghpull:`9677`: Rely more on lru_cache rather than custom caching.
-* :ghpull:`9698`: Set widget background color to white.
-* :ghpull:`9733`: Allow _BackendNbAgg.show() to take keyword "block"
-* :ghpull:`9732`: Added mention of WCSAxes in the third-party packages page
-* :ghpull:`9711`: Minor markup fix.
-* :ghpull:`9718`: Revert "Axes.__init__ speedup"
-* :ghpull:`8626`: Axes.__init__ speedup
-* :ghpull:`9662`: Fix crash when restarting OSX single shot timer
-* :ghpull:`9461`: Property tables
-* :ghpull:`9684`: Make some more of figure.py numpydoc
-* :ghpull:`9703`: Deprecate Artist.is_figure_set.
-* :ghpull:`9697`: Raise minimum WX version to 2.9.
-* :ghpull:`9705`: Fix scatterplot categorical support
-* :ghpull:`9687`: Fix callbackregistry docstring.
-* :ghpull:`9689`: Updates to font-related examples.
-* :ghpull:`9690`: Move example in wrong folder
-* :ghpull:`9678`: Remove a few unnecessary global statements.
-* :ghpull:`9685`: Trivial aliases.
-* :ghpull:`9566`: Update API examples
-* :ghpull:`9680`: Actually install the deps on Appveyor.
-* :ghpull:`9481`: Apply hinting factor rcParam in all cases.
-* :ghpull:`9676`: FIX: Catch IOError on font-cache write
-* :ghpull:`9673`: On CI, just let pip resolve most dependencies.
-* :ghpull:`9649`: Reoder Axes API docs.
-* :ghpull:`9658`: Pin pandas on appveyor too
-* :ghpull:`9665`: Update agg_oo_sgskip.py
-* :ghpull:`9661`: Fix arcs with very large width/height.
-* :ghpull:`9510`: BLD: Fix some bugs in ``setupext.py``
-* :ghpull:`9646`: Convert dviread to use lru_cache.
-* :ghpull:`9648`: Correct https git URIs in documentation
-* :ghpull:`9614`: Added an entry for mpl-scatter-density in the third-party tools page
-* :ghpull:`9640`: Remove unused global cmd_split variable.
-* :ghpull:`9532`: Further improve colormap discussion.
-* :ghpull:`9324`: [MRG] Allow kwarg handles and labels figure.legend and make doc for kwargs the same
-* :ghpull:`9643`: More helpful error if requested MovieWriter not available
-* :ghpull:`9359`: Keep track of axes in interactive navigation.
-* :ghpull:`9389`: Assign event to later Axes if zorders are tied.
-* :ghpull:`9612`: Only set view/data intervals if axis is set in AutoDateLocator
-* :ghpull:`9627`: Move old logo to history page.
-* :ghpull:`9624`: DOC: move whats_new entry to next_whats_new folder
-* :ghpull:`9625`: STY: remove trailing whitespace
-* :ghpull:`9600`: Fix some widget docstrings.
-* :ghpull:`9617`: Pin pandas<0.21 to unbreak the build.
-* :ghpull:`9515`: Attribute users/intro to JDH and rename to history.
-* :ghpull:`9615`: Do not hardcode fill=False in mark_inset
-* :ghpull:`9262`: Minor doc markup fixes.
-* :ghpull:`9603`: Fix xkcd() not resetting context anymore.
-* :ghpull:`9604`: Gridspec doc fixes
-* :ghpull:`9008`: adding webagg.address parameter to rcParams
-* :ghpull:`9519`: Increase patch test coverage
-* :ghpull:`9497`: Test simplifications.
-* :ghpull:`9536`: Simplify declaration of install_requires.
-* :ghpull:`9601`: Fix PEP8 in stackplot
-* :ghpull:`9595`: Convert stackplot docstring to numpydoc
-* :ghpull:`9589`: Fix typo in isinstance
-* :ghpull:`9523`: Add capstyle and joinstyle attributes to Collection class (Issue #8277)
-* :ghpull:`9584`: Add returns documentation to fill_between methods
-* :ghpull:`9575`: Add some legend handler documentation
-* :ghpull:`9477`: In LogTransform, clip after log, not before.
-* :ghpull:`9568`: Add a proper docstring to AutoLocator
-* :ghpull:`9569`: Docstring fix.
-* :ghpull:`9564`: TST: add test of normed histogram with unequal bins
-* :ghpull:`9552`: animation: Remove examples keyword
-* :ghpull:`9555`: MRG: expand docstring for ``hist``
-* :ghpull:`9469`: FIX: PyQt versions where showing the Qt versions
-* :ghpull:`9549`: Fix stale draws on MacOSX backend
-* :ghpull:`9544`: adding links to color examples and tutorials in the api page
-* :ghpull:`9540`: DOC fix set_xticklabels docstring
-* :ghpull:`9442`: BUG: Fix ``_extent`` not set in PcolorImage
-* :ghpull:`9363`: Allow invalid limits when panning
-* :ghpull:`9292`: Fix TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
-* :ghpull:`9530`: DOC Added the colormap references back
-* :ghpull:`9517`: Convert slider docstrings to numpydoc
-* :ghpull:`9516`: Make colorbar docstring numpydoc
-* :ghpull:`9504`: Truncate windows registry entries after null byte.
-* :ghpull:`9484`: Force installation of wx from whl, not from pypi.
-* :ghpull:`9300`: Simplify mpl.testing._copy_metadata.
-* :ghpull:`9508`: CI: do not run pushes to the auto-backport branches
-* :ghpull:`9506`: fix typo in rst markup
-* :ghpull:`7739`: WIP: Fix artifact upload
-* :ghpull:`9396`: Fix minor bug in vertex insert
-* :ghpull:`9478`: Added description to widget example programs except Cursor and Menu
-* :ghpull:`9164`: include overspilling axes legends in ax.get_tightbbox
-* :ghpull:`9495`: Macosx fixes
-* :ghpull:`9465`: Avoid dividing by zero in AutoMinorLocator (fixes #8804)
-* :ghpull:`9425`: Minor fixes to plot_directive.
-* :ghpull:`9486`: Don't leak test.jpeg into cwd while testing.
-* :ghpull:`9490`: No need to fake sets with dicts anymore.
-* :ghpull:`9487`: Improve test_backend_svg.test_determinism.
-* :ghpull:`9483`: DOC Demote container headings one level Artist tutorial (minor)
-* :ghpull:`9447`: Update examples for axisgrid1
-* :ghpull:`9121`: Remove old normalising code from plt.hist
-* :ghpull:`9293`: minor (unrelated) cleanups
-* :ghpull:`9459`: Modified restrictions on ``margins`` method
-* :ghpull:`9473`: Changes to better highlight development-workflow in docs
-* :ghpull:`9423`: Mark the interactive backend test as flaky.
-* :ghpull:`9476`: Get rid of a few unnecessary line continuations in strings.
-* :ghpull:`9435`: Shadow patch now initializes zorder behind argument patch
-* :ghpull:`9472`: documentation fix regarding contour and tricontour (#9088)
-* :ghpull:`9456`: Documented the incompatibility of shrink and cax kwargs in colorbar.
-* :ghpull:`9378`: DOC: fill out dev docs
-* :ghpull:`9464`: Fix multiple unreferenced local variable warnings
-* :ghpull:`9463`: DOC: Re-enable next what's new entries.
-* :ghpull:`9451`: custom legends example
-* :ghpull:`9137`: Adds option for Slider to snap to discrete values
-* :ghpull:`9441`: STY: fix bad indentation
-* :ghpull:`9449`: TST: Enable xdist on Appveyor
-* :ghpull:`9444`: STY: Remove explicit return in __init__
-* :ghpull:`9452`: FIX: Always update tick labels (fixes #9397)
-* :ghpull:`9438`: Remove unused variable 'sign'
-* :ghpull:`9418`: TST: Disable faulthandler on Windows if CPython 3.6-3.6.3
-* :ghpull:`9440`: Remove reimport of modules
-* :ghpull:`9439`: Fix undefined variable 'warnings'
-* :ghpull:`9437`: Fix Undefined variable 'symbol'
-* :ghpull:`9424`: Minor fixes to gallery build.
-* :ghpull:`9432`: Correct minor typo
-* :ghpull:`9420`: Trivial doc fixes.
-* :ghpull:`9427`: Fix NameError: name 'exc' is not defined
-* :ghpull:`9428`: Fix NameError: name 'ArgumentError' is not defined
-* :ghpull:`9409`: TST: Fix flaky tests order
-* :ghpull:`9408`: updating color cycle tutorial
-* :ghpull:`9415`: Import time module so that pyplot.pause works
-* :ghpull:`9410`: BUG: Fix savefig GUI in GTK backend
-* :ghpull:`9254`: imshow transparency blend example
-* :ghpull:`9403`: MAINT Documentation on doc is outdated
-* :ghpull:`9367`: Tell user to try installing pkg-config if packages not found
-* :ghpull:`9383`: Increase axes test coverage
-* :ghpull:`9401`: FIX scipy is not a requirement
-* :ghpull:`9392`: Add examples for subplots_axes_and_figures
-* :ghpull:`9394`: [Doc] Add pcolor, contour, imshow to  and other small changes
-* :ghpull:`9395`: TST: Unblock Appveyor build by patching ``subprocess``
-* :ghpull:`9347`: Fix backend refactor
-* :ghpull:`9365`: If PIL.image is missing, tell user to install pillow
-* :ghpull:`9381`: Add tutorials to the Users Guide.  
-* :ghpull:`9343`: Fix broken link to proxy artists documentation
-* :ghpull:`9368`: Add link to Matplotlib paper on citing page
-* :ghpull:`9375`: Document get_{x,y}axis_transform more prominently.
-* :ghpull:`9376`: Fix docstring typo in Rectangle, Ellipse, and Spine.
-* :ghpull:`9353`: Fix edgecolor being only applied to first bar.
-* :ghpull:`9335`: Fix poorly done deprecations in image.py.
-* :ghpull:`9341`: Update descriptions for images_contours_and_fields
-* :ghpull:`9342`: Fix typo of pixels in legend_handler.py
-* :ghpull:`9333`: Add descriptions for remaining event handling examples
-* :ghpull:`9279`: Update doc strings
-* :ghpull:`9242`: Errorbar bugfix
-* :ghpull:`9323`: Axis user guide
-* :ghpull:`9328`: Fix NameError: name 'os' is not defined
-* :ghpull:`9309`: DOC: Update docstring to numpy format for last few functions in transforms
-* :ghpull:`9291`: Doc updates
-* :ghpull:`9299`: Restore better error message on std::runtime_error.
-* :ghpull:`9295`: In text, warn and return instead of raise exception for non-finite x, y
-* :ghpull:`9303`: Don't use pytest.filterwarings, which needs pytest>=3.2.
-* :ghpull:`9289`: Throw std::runtime_exception instead of char*.
-* :ghpull:`9268`: Fix documents of semilogx and semilogy.
-* :ghpull:`9286`: Ask Appveyor to ignore certain branches.
-* :ghpull:`9277`: plot_surface docstring + edge case fix
-* :ghpull:`9278`: Remove scatter_profile example.
-* :ghpull:`9272`: Include the default of "plot_pre_code" of the plot directive in the documentation
 
-Issues (678):
+Issues (27):
 
-* :ghissue:`11649`: problems with timestamps in matplotlib seems related to bug #9779
-* :ghissue:`9264`: save file under existing name fails on windows
-* :ghissue:`3872`: collections.BrokenBarHCollection.span_where not working with pandas timeseries
-* :ghissue:`8509`: autofmt_xdate should not make xticklabels invisible when x-axis is not shared between rows
-* :ghissue:`7405`: "ValueError: ordinal must be >= 1" when plotting after axhline
-* :ghissue:`11655`: Sequential boxplot call edits xticklabels and xlim attributes
-* :ghissue:`11653`: TkAgg is currently broken (raise an AttributeError when trying to disply a plot)
-* :ghissue:`11628`: edgecolor argument not working in matplotlib.pyplot.bar
-* :ghissue:`11625`: plt.tight_layout() does not work with plt.subplot2grid
-* :ghissue:`11645`: Why subplot error? some points missed in result
-* :ghissue:`4993`: Version ~/.cache/matplotlib
-* :ghissue:`7842`: If hexbin has logarithmic bins, use log formatter for colorbar
-* :ghissue:`11639`: Anaconda qt 5.9.6 conflicts
+* :ghissue:`11822`: matplotlib.pyplot import gives error on MacOSX
+* :ghissue:`11832`: Marker disappears with markerfacecolor='None' when saving as eps file
+* :ghissue:`11810`: Figure gets collapsed after nth iteration using constrained_layout
+* :ghissue:`11389`: Incorrect processing of plot_args when using data argument
 * :ghissue:`11635`: "import matplotlib.pyplot" fails on NetBSD with version 2.2.2
-* :ghissue:`11632`: Unexpected Error when working in "batch mode" in plt.figure()
-* :ghissue:`11607`: AttributeError: 'QEvent' object has no attribute 'pos'
-* :ghissue:`11486`: Colorbar does not render with PowerNorm and min extend when using imshow
-* :ghissue:`11433`: Remove "Excellence in plotting" banner from website
-* :ghissue:`11582`: wx segfault
-* :ghissue:`11515`: using 'sharex' once in 'subplots' function can affect subsequent calles to 'subplots'
-* :ghissue:`10972`: don't let matplotlib pop up all opened windows 
-* :ghissue:`11606`: I cannot install matplotlib woth Python 3.7.0
-* :ghissue:`10269`: input() blocks any rendering and event handling
-* :ghissue:`10345`: Python 3.4 with Matplotlib 1.5 vs Python 3.6 with Matplotlib 2.1 
-* :ghissue:`10443`: Drop use of pytz dependency in next major release
-* :ghissue:`10572`: contour and contourf treat levels differently
-* :ghissue:`11123`: Crash when interactively adding a number of subplots
-* :ghissue:`11550`: Undefined names: 'obj_type' and 'cbook'
-* :ghissue:`11138`: Only the first figure window has mpl icon, all other figures have default tk icon.
-* :ghissue:`11596`: MatplotlibDeprecationWarning in basemap __init__
-* :ghissue:`11557`: Hoping add a drawing function 'patch'  in matplotlib
-* :ghissue:`11510`: extra minor-ticks on the colorbar when used with the extend option
-* :ghissue:`11434`: Some subplot axes not displaying when using both gridspec_kw/width_ratios and subplot2grid
-* :ghissue:`11369`: zorder of Artists not being respected when blitting with FuncAnimation
-* :ghissue:`11569`: Matplotlib cannot find fonts in Xubuntu 18.04 and outcomes annoying userwarning 
 * :ghissue:`6781`: Toolbar disappears in TkAgg if window if resized
-* :ghissue:`11560`: fill_between() misbehaves with unsorted x 
-* :ghissue:`11490`: Some issues about doc of plt.hist
-* :ghissue:`11452`: Streamplot ignores rightmost column and topmost row of velocity data
-* :ghissue:`11153`: Unexpected behavior for Axes.quiver(transform=None)
-* :ghissue:`10888`: pyplot: Program halts after gui save of first plot
 * :ghissue:`10890`: Bug causes to_rgba to fail inside cm.py
-* :ghissue:`11122`: Can't import name _backports when importing Axes3D from mplot3d
-* :ghissue:`11284`: imshow of multiple images produces old pixel values printed in status bar
-* :ghissue:`11496`: MouseEvent.x and .y have different types
-* :ghissue:`11543`: Implement support for hiding ticks labels from a stylesheet and/or "rcParams".
-* :ghissue:`11534`: Cross-reference margins and sticky edges
-* :ghissue:`11541`: matplotlib not working radar plot v2.2.2 python 3.6 Anaconda W10
-* :ghissue:`11531`: ``basic_units.py`` doesn't display negative radians correctly
-* :ghissue:`9984`: document that subprocess32 wheels require --pre flag
-* :ghissue:`10270`: Axes docstring doesn't document kwargs...
-* :ghissue:`7402`: Return filename in Figure.savefig
-* :ghissue:`11516`: after updating to python 3.6 from python 3.5 stopped to work plt.show(block = False)
 * :ghissue:`9582`: axes_grid1 docs do not appear on mpl.org anymore.
-* :ghissue:`9789`: Resize figure with tight_layout throws a numpy linalg error
-* :ghissue:`9800`: semilogx() raises incorrect ValueError with AGG backend
-* :ghissue:`11511`: Math expression doesn't show properply  in wrapped text
-* :ghissue:`11487`: Histogram plot to support specifying colors for each patch as part of the color argument
-* :ghissue:`11488`: Strange behaviour with ligatures and combination of pgf and lualatex
-* :ghissue:`11463`: Problem with Lualatex backend
-* :ghissue:`11315`: Ways to improve the documentation search results
 * :ghissue:`11484`: Matplotlib does not build on OpenBSD using clang
-* :ghissue:`11482`: custom rotate polygon is getting skewed
-* :ghissue:`11471`: matplotlib.pyplot.plot draws wrong figure
-* :ghissue:`11458`: markerfacecolor="None" becomes black when using the alpha channel
-* :ghissue:`11453`: PyQt GPL "infecting" even when using PySide backend
-* :ghissue:`11450`: bbox intersection algorithm docs
-* :ghissue:`11440`: Get rid of get_test_data in axes3d examples
-* :ghissue:`11436`: imsave always saves alpha channel
-* :ghissue:`11439`: Matplotlib 2.0.0rc2 banner still present in at least one docs page
-* :ghissue:`8556`: Add images of markers to the list of markers
-* :ghissue:`7342`: list of markers in documentation could be improved
-* :ghissue:`7555`: Deprecation needed for ``frange`` and others?
-* :ghissue:`11435`: plt.subplot eats my subplots
-* :ghissue:`11386`: Logit scale doesn't position x/ylabel correctly first draw
-* :ghissue:`11384`: Undefined name 'Path' in backend_nbagg.py
-* :ghissue:`11426`: nbagg broken on master.  'Path' is not defined...
 * :ghissue:`11302`: [DOC] Build of documentation fails
-* :ghissue:`6812`: Matplotlib seaborn styles examples
-* :ghissue:`11414`: Incorrect x-axis when plotting an array
-* :ghissue:`990`: imshow extent keyword (documentation?)
-* :ghissue:`326`: Changing color of axes, labels, tickmarks in one move 
-* :ghissue:`11390`: Internal use of deprecated code
 * :ghissue:`11031`: wrong x-position of marker with drawstyle='steps-xxx'
-* :ghissue:`8278`: FuncAnimation with generator defaults to arbitrary save_count=100
-* :ghissue:`7347`: atomic saving of pdf
-* :ghissue:`7675`: qt4agg subplots dialog suggests an error
-* :ghissue:`11374`: Using matplotlib.subplot with GeoAxes fails to give same size panels
-* :ghissue:`11393`: setting default figsize with pyplot.rc in same (jupyter/ipython) cell of matplotlib import does not work
-* :ghissue:`11377`: Feature Req: ``plt.subplots(sharev=True)``
 * :ghissue:`11372`: Symbols not showing in eps format
-* :ghissue:`11203`: tight_layout reserves tick space even if disabled
-* :ghissue:`11361`: Tox.ini does not work out of the box
-* :ghissue:`11253`: Problem while changing current figure size in Jupyter notebook
-* :ghissue:`11371`: How to speed up Display in Python using FIgureCanvasTKAgg()
-* :ghissue:`11368`: %matplotlib notebook broken in 2.2.2 on linux. Works in 2.0.2.
-* :ghissue:`11359`: Animating circles sometimes skews them to ellipses
-* :ghissue:`11347`: Unable to load rcParams in Matplotlib 2.2
-* :ghissue:`11309`: Get the z coord in event
-* :ghissue:`11219`: Write an arrow tutorial
 * :ghissue:`10814`: manually backport #10806
-* :ghissue:`11322`: Really deprecate Patches.xy?
-* :ghissue:`11294`: ConnectionStyle Angle3 hangs with specific parameters
-* :ghissue:`9518`: Some ConnectionStyle not working
-* :ghissue:`11319`: matplotlib.pyplot.imshow does not work as expected
-* :ghissue:`11303`: Using fonttype 42 will make the produced PDF size considerably larger when the image has Chinese characters
-* :ghissue:`11306`: savefig and path.py
-* :ghissue:`11077`: Font "DejaVu Sans" can only be used through fallback
-* :ghissue:`2850`: sphinxext.plot_directive: captions not working
-* :ghissue:`10323`: imshow documentation has confusing matrix dimensions
-* :ghissue:`10105`: Horizontal and vertical text alignment not working on set_rgrids()
-* :ghissue:`10827`: Python crashes when running embedding_in_pyqt5.py using PySide2
-* :ghissue:`11279`: systemwide defaults are ignored if user rc is found, this is atypical behavior
-* :ghissue:`10717`: Failure to find matplotlibrc when testing installed distribution
-* :ghissue:`11276`: plt.ion() call before plt.figure() call fails after a Windows 10 update.
-* :ghissue:`7203`: Issue when saving to pdf for plots using different plt.style.use
-* :ghissue:`10813`: Importing pyplot with Qt5Agg creates QApplication instance
-* :ghissue:`11167`: Using multiple fonts for tick labels
-* :ghissue:`11152`: matplotlib hangs on plotting
-* :ghissue:`11270`: Broken test for pcolormesh with masked array as input
-* :ghissue:`11269`: Triangle plot with Python using data file
-* :ghissue:`9912`: Cleaning up variable argument signatures
-* :ghissue:`11264`: 'str' object has no attribute '_rgba_under' when trying to set_under a colormap 
-* :ghissue:`11261`: about the contourf command
-* :ghissue:`11256`: Errors in the examples for matplotlib.pyplot.streamplot
-* :ghissue:`10156`: Pyplot doc summary should strip docstring signatures
 * :ghissue:`10072`: imshow doesn't properly display some images
-* :ghissue:`11244`: Question: matplotlib.pyplot max number of x,y  of the ``plot()`` method
-* :ghissue:`11245`: Place subplots at scatter point positions inside a scatter
-* :ghissue:`11242`: Dre
-* :ghissue:`3701`: unit tests should compare pyplot.py with output from boilerplate.py
-* :ghissue:`11237`: Error with simple plot
-* :ghissue:`11230`: facecolor and color interference
-* :ghissue:`11220`: can't plot from remote machine connected via ssh -X from macOS
-* :ghissue:`11226`: RAM does not get cleaned correctly using Qt5 backend
-* :ghissue:`3364`: pdf backend displaces patches
-* :ghissue:`9955`: test input data is not existed for demo
-* :ghissue:`9950`: rcParams['pdf.use14corefonts'] = True fails bizarrely 
-* :ghissue:`6743`: Feature request: Adding XClass property to interactively created figures
-* :ghissue:`11198`: incorrect default limits 'log' scale depending on order of scatter
 * :ghissue:`11163`: RecursionError when calling get_yaxis_transform() on a Symlog-scaled axis.
-* :ghissue:`11183`: Undefined name 'system_fonts' in backend_pgf.py
-* :ghissue:`9129`: Slider Class: Option for discrete values
-* :ghissue:`11101`: Crash on empty patches
-* :ghissue:`11151`: DOC: In search for the matplotlib codex
-* :ghissue:`11164`: p
 * :ghissue:`11156`: Error in documentation of pyplot.errorbar()
-* :ghissue:`9062`: Improper scaling on low-res display when a hi-res display is also present on the system
-* :ghissue:`11116`: Saving plot with text annotation and time axis to pgf file errors with multiple backends 
 * :ghissue:`11104`: pyplot.plot conflict: markerfacecolor ='none' and alpha
-* :ghissue:`11133`: ax.scatter after boxplot does not scatter-plot the right values
 * :ghissue:`11126`: Legend positioning behavior change from matplotlib  {2.1.0 -> 2.2.2}
-* :ghissue:`11124`: [Bug] savefig cannot save file with a Unicode name
-* :ghissue:`11140`: Invalid Display Variable 
 * :ghissue:`10633`: Type Error when saving jpg image (Pillow 3)
-* :ghissue:`11103`: Pie demo crashes backport v2.2.2-doc
-* :ghissue:`11128`: Saved animation is not the same as in the notebook
 * :ghissue:`10911`: Get ticklabels back on shared axis
-* :ghissue:`11070`: Add a "density" kwarg to hist2d
 * :ghissue:`5609`: Segfaults with wxpython 3.0.2.0 backend
-* :ghissue:`11118`: Linux Distro MPL Writes Empty Plot for Fig with Unfilled markers saved as EPS
-* :ghissue:`11117`: Documentation, Spinx
-* :ghissue:`11115`: Reusing cleared figure with suptitle and constrained layout raises an exception
-* :ghissue:`7733`: Trying to set_ylim(bottom=0) on a log scaled axis changes plot
-* :ghissue:`11113`: Line2D markfacecolor=None fails if set_alpha() is called
-* :ghissue:`11112`: No module named 'matplotlib.externals' only inside IPython3 console
-* :ghissue:`10319`: TST: pyqt 5.10 breaks pyqt5 interactive tests
-* :ghissue:`8142`: saving pdf breaks with invisible markers?
-* :ghissue:`11078`: handling datetime labels
-* :ghissue:`11091`: plt.plot() crashes
-* :ghissue:`10676`: Add source code to documentation
-* :ghissue:`3815`: hist2d and x/y limits
-* :ghissue:`11068`: Matplotlib.units fails if used in a file called new.py
-* :ghissue:`11058`: PyQt backend: libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
-* :ghissue:`10477`: matplotlib install fails under windows 7 with python_d
-* :ghissue:`10956`: Feature Request: Add annotations to heatmaps (imshow or pcolor*)
-* :ghissue:`11049`: Import Error from Matplotlib v. 2.2.2 under Anaconda 5.1 Mac OS X Sierra
-* :ghissue:`8699`: Make legend title fontsize obey fontsize kwarg by default?
-* :ghissue:`11040`: Checking if a figure is empty (no data visible)
-* :ghissue:`11041`: legend(bbox_transform) don't work with tight layout in 2.2.x
-* :ghissue:`11024`: quotes_historical_yahoo_ohlc didn't get data
 * :ghissue:`11021`: remove ``import distutils.sysconfig`` from ``lib/matplotlib/__init__.py``
-* :ghissue:`10993`: ``matplotlib-2.2.2-py3.5-nspkg.pth`` cause pip3 error.
-* :ghissue:`9207`: axes has no method to return new position after box is adjusted due to aspect ratio...
-* :ghissue:`4615`: hist2d with log xy axis
-* :ghissue:`11016`: Could not load matplotlib icon: can't use "pyimage10" as iconphoto: not a photo image
-* :ghissue:`11012`: Subplot figure have big blank space In Spyder3
-* :ghissue:`11008`: set_aspect("equal") not accord with get_xlim()
-* :ghissue:`11006`: Development build: symbol not found in ``_path`` module
-* :ghissue:`10996`: Plotting text with datetime axis causes warning
-* :ghissue:`6924`: Docstring section "Other Parameters" not rendering with rest of table
-* :ghissue:`7582`: Report date and time of cursor position on a plot_date plot
-* :ghissue:`10114`: Remove mlab from examples
-* :ghissue:`10342`: imshow longdouble not truly supported
-* :ghissue:`10396`: [Question]: Plot the exact number of hexagons using hexbin
-* :ghissue:`10988`: How to initiate the format of a line in matplotlib?
-* :ghissue:`10985`: How  to initiate the format of a line in matplotlib? 
-* :ghissue:`8062`: tight_layout + lots of subplots + long ylabels inverts yaxis
-* :ghissue:`4413`: Long axis title alters xaxis length and direction with ``plt.tight_layout()``
 * :ghissue:`10949`: Qt5Agg blitting issue with matplotlib 2.2.2
 * :ghissue:`10966`: pillow animation writer failing macOS tests
-* :ghissue:`10969`: default style of 3D plot
-* :ghissue:`10959`: Matplotlib in vfx tools.
-* :ghissue:`10957`: in 2.1.1 the x/y limits don't update when updating axes content
-* :ghissue:`1415`: Plot title should be shifted up when xticks are set to the top of the plot
-* :ghissue:`10946`: Adding a special color name for 'last color'.
-* :ghissue:`10789`: Make pie charts circular by default
-* :ghissue:`10945`: "Bad" deprecation warning: "Invalid escape sequence" warning incorrectly flags LaTeX
-* :ghissue:`10941`: Cannot set text alignment in pie chart
-* :ghissue:`7908`: plt.show doesn't warn if a non-GUI backend is being used
-* :ghissue:`10502`: 'FigureManager' is an undefined name in backend_wx.py
 * :ghissue:`10921`: No markers in EPS if fillstyle='none'
-* :ghissue:`10648`: pyplot hangs at plot()
-* :ghissue:`10925`: imshow with interpolation='none': PDF contains two pixmaps
 * :ghissue:`10889`: memory error using savefig with ylim to create pdf of box plots
-* :ghissue:`10923`: shorten a colorbar by half when the colorbar is created using axes_grid1
-* :ghissue:`10062`: axes limits revert to automatic on sharing axes?
-* :ghissue:`10920`: set_marker(Path) is broken
-* :ghissue:`10916`: Get original image values from a colormap array
-* :ghissue:`9246`: ENH: make default colorbar ticks adjust as nicely as axes ticks
-* :ghissue:`8818`: plt.plot() does not support structured arrays as data= kwarg
-* :ghissue:`10880`: Documentation for new contributors not matching with actual issues labels
-* :ghissue:`10869`: Text wrapping doesn't seem to work in jupyter notebook
-* :ghissue:`5666`: setting MPLCONFIGDIR in  __init__ as unicode breaks env on Python 2.7 for Windows
-* :ghissue:`10883`: Matplotlib Crashses and Exits Python on plt.show() Using Qt5Agg Backend
-* :ghissue:`10066`: Wheel build test failures on urlopen with handshake failure
-* :ghissue:`9211`: Make error when trying to plot numerical data on datetime axis clearer
-* :ghissue:`6023`: Error with plot_date and agg backend: ValueError: ordinal must be >= 1
-* :ghissue:`10533`: Recognize pandas Timestamp objects for DateConverter?
-* :ghissue:`10855`: Embedding in Qt example gives AttributeError: 'Figure' object has no attribute 'subplots'
-* :ghissue:`8358`: Minor ticks on log-scale colorbar are not cleared
 * :ghissue:`10866`: bz2 mistakenly made a hard requirement of matplotlib 2.2.2
-* :ghissue:`10839`: imshow crashes when in non blocking mode
-* :ghissue:`10854`: Please clarify matplotlib-version in documentation and sample code!
-* :ghissue:`10075`: RectangleSelector does not work if start and end points are identical
-* :ghissue:`10859`: Some minor ticker are missing
-* :ghissue:`9613`: Cannot plot bar chart with DatetimeIndex
-* :ghissue:`8576`: support 'markevery' in prop_cycle
-* :ghissue:`10848`: Tk error when pressing 'q' key on interactive 'key_press_event' window.
-* :ghissue:`9920`: axes.errorbar complains about markerfacecolor parameter in property_cycle
-* :ghissue:`9922`: axes.errorbar doesn't follow property cycle
-* :ghissue:`8874`: Crash in python setup.py test
-* :ghissue:`3871`: replace use of _tkcanvas with get_tk_widget()
-* :ghissue:`9179`: pylab segfaults with QT5 backend and no x11
-* :ghissue:`6954`: Adding a system wide directory to place custom styles 
-* :ghissue:`2190`: Improve logging for remote benchmarking/debugging
-* :ghissue:`2353`: Write a dependency policy
-* :ghissue:`5052`: When zooming a triangle is rendered instead of a rectangle.
-* :ghissue:`7165`: sip/pyqt4 issues during travisCI testing
-* :ghissue:`6206`: appveyor: Implement skips of "obsolete" commits in PRs
-* :ghissue:`5262`: 1.5.0~rc2: unittest failures/errors on (debian) ppc64el
-* :ghissue:`5261`: 1.5.0~rc2: unittest failures/errors on (debian) powerpc
-* :ghissue:`5258`: 1.5.0~rc2: unittest failures/errors on (debian) armhf
-* :ghissue:`5257`: 1.5.0~rc2: unittest failures/errors on (debian) armel
-* :ghissue:`5263`: 1.5.0~rc2: unittest failures/errors on (debian) s390x
-* :ghissue:`5255`: 1.5.0~rc2: unittest failures/errors on (debian) mips
-* :ghissue:`6115`: appveyor is failing on build
-* :ghissue:`5362`: Warning from test_collections.test_picking
-* :ghissue:`10550`: Use long color names for rc defaultParams
-* :ghissue:`10821`: Cairo backend flips image
-* :ghissue:`10820`: Axis autoscaling ignores margins
-* :ghissue:`10740`: table.table fails with KeyError (legacy python and mpl 2.2.0 only)
-* :ghissue:`10722`: Duplicated test name in test_constrainedlayout
-* :ghissue:`10732`: Calling ``properties()`` on ``Table`` raises exception
-* :ghissue:`10784`: axes.legend TypeError in v2.2.0
-* :ghissue:`10410`: eventplot alters data in some cases
-* :ghissue:`10786`: ImportError, library not loaded for libc++abi.1.dylib
-* :ghissue:`10419`: svg backend does not respect alpha channel of text *when passed as rgba*
-* :ghissue:`10785`: TkAgg reports bad option 'foobar' for icon with ``logging`` set to INFO level
-* :ghissue:`10783`: Adding an empty matplotlibrc in cwd changes the rcparams
-* :ghissue:`10769`: DOC: set_major_locator could check that its getting a Locator (was EngFormatter broken?)
-* :ghissue:`10770`: subplots with qt5agg backend flashes frame on windows desktop
-* :ghissue:`10753`: PDF saved as raster graphic when plt.savefig is given a Path object
-* :ghissue:`10729`: Animation saving via ffmpeg stops after some 300 frames
-* :ghissue:`10716`: Removal of verbose not documented: AttributeError: module 'matplotlib' has no attribute 'verbose'
-* :ghissue:`10758`: [PyInstaller] Failed import of cbook due to upgrade to matplolib 2.2.0
-* :ghissue:`10755`: AttributeError: module 'matplotlib' has no attribute 'verbose'
-* :ghissue:`10727`: Doc issue: ConnectorPatch -> ConnectionPatch
-* :ghissue:`10719`: Need better type error checking for linewidth in ax.grid
-* :ghissue:`10749`: When I saved graph in JPG format it's outer axis are no longer present.
-* :ghissue:`10750`: Are there any methods to stop the moving point showing again  in python package matplotlib
-* :ghissue:`10644`: autoscaling only one side of an axis
-* :ghissue:`10698`: Build fails in clang i386
-* :ghissue:`10738`: Suggestion: improve mark_inset by letting user choose all four corners (locs) 
-* :ghissue:`5742`: ``Axes3DSubplot.plot`` not setting data limits correctly when ``zdir='x'`` or ``zdir='y'``
-* :ghissue:`3926`: Feature request: place axes relative to other axes, with automatic updating
-* :ghissue:`10709`: How ._cntr should be imported on Matplotlib (LTS) 2.2.0
-* :ghissue:`10654`: PySmithPlot/Polar Plot update broken in 2.1.2 (works in 2.0.2)  
-* :ghissue:`7776`: tex cache lockfile retries should be configurable
-* :ghissue:`10556`: Special conversions of xrange()
-* :ghissue:`10060`: Dragged legend moves upon resizing figure window
-* :ghissue:`10501`: cmp() is an undefined name in Python 3
-* :ghissue:`10655`: constrainedlayout is very slow for large number of subplots
-* :ghissue:`4749`: Incorrect dependency handling from local pip
-* :ghissue:`9812`: figure_enter_event generates base Event and not LocationEvent
-* :ghissue:`10677`: Bug: Example from matplotlib.afm not working
-* :ghissue:`10673`: Creating a 6 DoF plot of a quadcopter. 
-* :ghissue:`10671`: %gui wx crashes jupyter notebook kernel
-* :ghissue:`10670`: matplotlib power spectral density (PSD) normalize
-* :ghissue:`10567`: imshow in 2.1: color resolution depends on outliers? 
-* :ghissue:`10616`: get error when show a picture(image) : 'numpy.ndarray' object has no attribute 'mask'
-* :ghissue:`10627`: Surprising alignment of (multiple) colorbars with constrained layout active
-* :ghissue:`10647`: matplotlib with joblib with requests hangs
-* :ghissue:`10630`: Adding NCL colortables to default matplotlib colormaps
-* :ghissue:`10641`: Take too much memory and too long to save into figure
-* :ghissue:`10619`: bar plot fails with units
-* :ghissue:`10637`: I have already installed matplotlib function using the command : sudo apt-get install python3-matplotlib.
-* :ghissue:`10585`: searborn adaptation need for Matptotlib-2.2.0rc1
-* :ghissue:`10620`: Error comparing label colors on duplicated labels
-* :ghissue:`10494`: Keeping matplotlibrc.templace up to date
-* :ghissue:`10382`: More documentation ``mlab`` deprecation.
-* :ghissue:`10555`: Initial plot window ignoring rcParams figure.figsize
-* :ghissue:`10611`: issue with matplotlib.add_subplot documentation
-* :ghissue:`10602`: Random image failures with test_curvelinear4
-* :ghissue:`10496`: exception after clicking ok when editing axis curve info on 3d plot
-* :ghissue:`10582`: Creating colorbar for manual axes broken
-* :ghissue:`6412`: EventCollection._is_horizontal remains uninitialized, causing eventplot error
-* :ghissue:`10583`: I have problems with display Arabic words in the plots, the words became backward, how can I solve it
-* :ghissue:`10580`: Figures plotting in local display
-* :ghissue:`10576`: legend in wrong place with wrong labels
-* :ghissue:`10560`: fig.savefig alters the dimensions of the figure
-* :ghissue:`10526`: In Axes.hist, 'range' kwarg shadows builtin 'range' needed for Py3
-* :ghissue:`10398`: plt.hist density argument does not function as described.
-* :ghissue:`10547`: set_xticks does not work with x data type str
-* :ghissue:`10543`: pyqt error while importing pyqt5
-* :ghissue:`10476`: Version 2.2.0rc1 triggers TypeError
-* :ghissue:`10516`: _macosx.m fails to compile on Mac OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
-* :ghissue:`10458`: Draggable legend changes position when saving figure with DPI value different from display
-* :ghissue:`10517`: overlapping lines in matplotlib library
-* :ghissue:`10500`: show() is an undefined name in backend_webagg.py
-* :ghissue:`10479`: TclError in TkAgg with version 2.2.0rc1 
-* :ghissue:`10397`: wxPython Phoenix release 4.0.0 will not plot
-* :ghissue:`9972`: drag/pan error when mouse click is not 1 or 3
-* :ghissue:`9222`: Anaconda python spyder systematically crash when multiple plot savefig
-* :ghissue:`6269`: MemoryError In copy_from_bbox
-* :ghissue:`7795`: Incorrect uses of is_numlike
-* :ghissue:`10453`: broken link in lib/matplotlib/dates.py comment
-* :ghissue:`4319`: Documentation table of contents doesn't go deep enough
-* :ghissue:`5731`: Move from numpydoc to sphinxcontrib-napoleon
-* :ghissue:`3187`: moderize? boxplot demo
-* :ghissue:`7978`: Warnings in doc build
-* :ghissue:`10457`: Navigation history broken in matplotlib 2.1.0
-* :ghissue:`9065`: google indexes dev-docs
-* :ghissue:`10391`: ax.get_legend().get_title().get_visible() does not work
-* :ghissue:`9876`: Outlining of devel/documenting_matplotlib
-* :ghissue:`10358`: Clarify documentation for fig.add_subplot()
-* :ghissue:`9642`: contour_doc not rendered properly
-* :ghissue:`1109`: MEP for a matplotlib geometry manager
-* :ghissue:`10202`: error in construction of inverted log transforms
-* :ghissue:`10434`: ``pip install matplotlib`` when Matplotlib is already installed fails because it tries to get unnecessary dependencies
-* :ghissue:`6078`: mpl_event
-* :ghissue:`9543`: Image interpolation gives slightly different result on 32-bit Python
-* :ghissue:`10430`: find points which lies strictly inside the polygon
-* :ghissue:`9312`: categorical axis sorts its keys
-* :ghissue:`10424`: Confusing log message from GridSpec
-* :ghissue:`9336`: Integer Categorical Values Not Getting Mapped Correctly
-* :ghissue:`9350`: Data types not preserved in categoricals
-* :ghissue:`9843`: Are categorical plots with single letter strings limited to show 10 categories?
-* :ghissue:`9112`: PDFPages Errors on savefig (missing encode)
-* :ghissue:`10418`: wxagg is broken as of master
-* :ghissue:`10406`: Matplotlib stylesheet warnings: Key boxplot.medianprops.color: 'C1' does not look like a color arg``
-* :ghissue:`9147`: broken links in docs
-* :ghissue:`4974`: make color abbrivations configurable
-* :ghissue:`3690`: Using Ctrl-W to close a matplotlib window opened by exec-ing a script in wxpython causes a segfault under linux
-* :ghissue:`10386`: Make kiwisolver an optional dependency?
-* :ghissue:`10174`: Rendering problems with FigureCanvasWxAgg on OSX
-* :ghissue:`9035`: savefig does put the correct dpi in the metadata of jpeg
-* :ghissue:`5750`: whish for 2016: matplotlib can use only Pillow 3.0+ to create animated GIF
-* :ghissue:`9717`: gtk3agg not working with python 3.6.3 & cairocffi 1.10.0
-* :ghissue:`6973`: Running pytest against non develop install fails
-* :ghissue:`6836`: DOC: missing second y-axis in ``demo_parasite_axes2``
-* :ghissue:`5428`: Change ``setup.py install`` recommendation to ``pip install .``
-* :ghissue:`4978`: Use higher-resolution icons on HiDPI-friendly backends
-* :ghissue:`4907`: mpl_toolkits not installed with ``pip install -e .``
-* :ghissue:`3446`: Add note about CHM security issues
-* :ghissue:`3267`: Why does rec2csv ignore float precision?
-* :ghissue:`10343`: Missing keys in matplotlibrc.template to move x-axis labels to top
-* :ghissue:`10267`: matplotlibrc: new entry for placing y-axis tick label on Right or Left hand side.
-* :ghissue:`10384`: maybe bugs in ax.annotate when get bbox coordinates(matplot-2.1.0)?
-* :ghissue:`7155`: use categorical in demos
-* :ghissue:`6802`: Discrete scatter?
-* :ghissue:`9974`: toolbar.update() breaks history
-* :ghissue:`10373`: cannot import matplotlib.pyplot
-* :ghissue:`10368`: constrained layout uneven gridspec layouts...
-* :ghissue:`9391`: imshow doesn't normalize the color range in RGB images 
-* :ghissue:`5382`: imsave and imshow ignore vmin/vmax
-* :ghissue:`10372`: Floating point image RGB values must be in the 0..1 range
-* :ghissue:`10349`: Rectangle patch added to a datetime x-axis is plotted with the wrong width
-* :ghissue:`10344`: matplotlib can not handle pandas dataframe correctly when the label of the columns/index is strings but the actual data are float.
-* :ghissue:`8308`: Too many open files: '/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/web_backend/mpl.js'
-* :ghissue:`10341`: syntax error without a space
-* :ghissue:`10338`: line.set_drawstyle fails to produce step-like line
-* :ghissue:`8852`: Rolling image if the FFMpegWriter dpi setting does not match that specified when a figure is created
-* :ghissue:`10287`: _tkinter.TclError: can't invoke "wm" command: application has been destroyed
-* :ghissue:`7640`: Some properties are set lazily and behaved inconsistently
-* :ghissue:`4346`: Tick label padding on first y-axis changes when adding a second y-axis
-* :ghissue:`5560`: Secondary_y axis default limit (top) & bound (upper) not matching ticks
-* :ghissue:`8823`: colorbar might shrink plots if used with twinx
-* :ghissue:`10318`: Matplotlib Sample Outdated?
-* :ghissue:`8736`: Figure resize when saving a plot
-* :ghissue:`10216`: TST: gdb has been removed from Travis
-* :ghissue:`10290`: Figure rotation using Axes.text () with eps backend
-* :ghissue:`10300`: How to use triplot to make a multi-color line of the triangular
-* :ghissue:`8820`: Regression with numpy ~~1.13~~ 1.14 for colorbars of boolean data
-* :ghissue:`5968`: Accepting pathlib.Path as path inputs?
-* :ghissue:`10285`: Picture in online documentation for multi_image.py is cut off at bottom
-* :ghissue:`10229`: ENH: Add imageio as an option for saving animated gifs
-* :ghissue:`10288`: issue with version of six
-* :ghissue:`10151`: Question on docstring and signature of Axes.stem()
-* :ghissue:`10073`: datetime and sub-second resolution plotting
-* :ghissue:`10277`: error import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
-* :ghissue:`10265`: ENH tripcolor with explicit RGB colors
-* :ghissue:`10262`: OrderedDict legends no longer work 2.1
-* :ghissue:`10162`: Increase of Computation time from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1
-* :ghissue:`6884`: MPLRC environment variable to set rcparams
-* :ghissue:`10252`: Can't Import Matplotlib.pyplot - Anaconda 4.4, Python 3.6 & Windows 10
-* :ghissue:`7797`: Quiver barb size not correct on some arches (ppc64, ppc64le...)
-* :ghissue:`5873`: Useless Dvi dispatch docs in dvi_read api docs
-* :ghissue:`10251`: I have determined a color for each data point pragmatically and I have 11 set of x(time) and y(subjects) and I want to make plots for these values(x values) and these colors will be used for the data points on the plots.
-* :ghissue:`5568`: Latin Modern support?
-* :ghissue:`5208`: MathTex Font error
-* :ghissue:`5250`: Font-weight range seems wrong
-* :ghissue:`3531`: sundry documentation issues
-* :ghissue:`6716`: ``cleanup`` decorator implemented in an obfuscated way
-* :ghissue:`9160`: blank space vs. white space
-* :ghissue:`524`: improving mpl docs and accessibility for API users
-* :ghissue:`4313`: Document installation with pip for Python3
-* :ghissue:`6626`: Error in example http://matplotlib.org/examples/misc/multiprocess.html
-* :ghissue:`8152`: test_fontconfig_fonts error on Linux wheel testing
-* :ghissue:`7917`: Docstring of EventCollection cuts mid-sentence.
-* :ghissue:`9906`: Incorrect alpha compositing using "matplotlib.pyplot.imshow".
-* :ghissue:`10069`: Add what's new entry for new color comparision method
-* :ghissue:`10221`: savefig() does not support PosixPath object for file name
-* :ghissue:`10205`: matplotlib.
-* :ghissue:`9040`: 'Figure' object has no attribute '_original_dpi'
-* :ghissue:`5703`: Python 2.6 string format syntax errors in matplotlib 1.4.3
-* :ghissue:`10163`: savefig with eps draws a hidden axis
-* :ghissue:`2508`: Relim not working correctly with images
-* :ghissue:`10140`: Qt5Agg eats 100% CPU when plotting with block=True in interactive mode
-* :ghissue:`10122`: Color bar has multiple labels for 0 if matplotlib.colors.SymLogNorm is used
-* :ghissue:`10130`: Bar plot does not work
-* :ghissue:`10135`: matplotlib installation from source and numpy incompatibility
-* :ghissue:`10123`: memory leak with histograms 
-* :ghissue:`9887`: polar limits not snapping to 0
-* :ghissue:`9429`: Undefined name ``baseline``?
-* :ghissue:`8547`: Allow scalar ``weights`` parameter to ``hist`` method
-* :ghissue:`10115`: pcolor vs pcolorfast: unexpected white edgecolors using RGBA-alike colormaps
-* :ghissue:`9200`: Documentation: File doc/users/whats_new/README does not exist
-* :ghissue:`10078`: updating to release 2.1.1 causes pip to stop working
-* :ghissue:`9597`: Plot with ``drawstyle="steps"`` fails if x and y are empty
-* :ghissue:`8390`: Can't install matplotlib from source due to recent addition of QHULL_LIB_CHECK to src/qhull_wrap.c
-* :ghissue:`8872`: Build errors with existing qhull
-* :ghissue:`10053`: Duplicate legend labels with different colors can often result in an error.
-* :ghissue:`10056`: Only one legend entry is rendered for items with the same label and color
-* :ghissue:`10037`: Documentation mistake in the pyplot introductory tutorial
-* :ghissue:`9973`: Slightly misleading  errorbar docs that interferes with attempt to animate errorbar
-* :ghissue:`10012`: TST: ``mlab.cohere`` needs a test
-* :ghissue:`9996`: Remove badges from website side bar
-* :ghissue:`8493`: Colorbar documentation: ``anchor`` not recognized as possible argument to plt.colorbar
-* :ghissue:`8668`: handles keyword argument not documented in the help of legend
-* :ghissue:`10015`: TKWindow unrecognized selector error
-* :ghissue:`5507`: DLL load failed: cannot find specified procedure when importing matplotlib.pyplot
-* :ghissue:`7939`: Mathtext.py glyph mapping fails for StixFonts (UnicodeFonts subclass)
-* :ghissue:`4167`: No SVG/PDF export when useing latex package cmbrigth
-* :ghissue:`4109`: WXAgg embedded navigation zoom, home, back not working
-* :ghissue:`3848`: PGF Backend with LuaLaTeX: Permission denied error
-* :ghissue:`10007`: nonposx and nonposy
-* :ghissue:`9940`: Deprecate Axes as a valid pyplot.axes() argument type
-* :ghissue:`10005`: matplotlib.pyplot.figlegend not working with Patches
-* :ghissue:`10003`: Typo in mlab.cohere
-* :ghissue:`9988`: Contours are not removed correctly when using clabel with manual
-* :ghissue:`9185`: Problem in Scatter-Piecharts example
-* :ghissue:`9856`: Python crashes when closing figures using TkAgg on Mac OS
-* :ghissue:`9977`: Error shows when I import matplotlib after installation
-* :ghissue:`9935`: QT5 AttributeError pixelDelta
-* :ghissue:`9943`: toolmanager_sgskip + tkagg example couples "GroupHide" toggle with Pan and (second) Zoom
-* :ghissue:`8347`: font_manager.py Bug
-* :ghissue:`4575`: nbagg canvas size
-* :ghissue:`9983`: ImportError: ZLIB_1.2.9 not found
-* :ghissue:`9982`: ``````'module' object has no attribute 'subplots'`````` when importing with ``````__import__``````
-* :ghissue:`9954`: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt, ImportError: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
-* :ghissue:`9980`: Cannot update to MPL v2.1.1 on Anaconda
-* :ghissue:`7502`: Rely on Sphinx' "any" role to make docstrings more legible
-* :ghissue:`9976`: ax.set_aspect triggers useless warnings
-* :ghissue:`9965`: subplots ignores figsize argument
-* :ghissue:`9863`: Y-axis value of a seaborn heatmap is reversed when home icon or H button is pushed
-* :ghissue:`9944`: Acorr() creates two labels
-* :ghissue:`9939`: Matplotlib scatterplot does not work with pandas timestamp/datetime format
-* :ghissue:`2140`: Make Cmd-W close the window using QT4 on OS X
-* :ghissue:`4916`: Cannot use a timedelta Rectangle width with a datetime axis
-* :ghissue:`5798`: Use Makefile for sphinx build
-* :ghissue:`9739`: doc inconsistency: definition of "aspect"
-* :ghissue:`9018`: DayLocator is returning incorrect times around daylights switch over
-* :ghissue:`7388`: Example examples/misc/multiprocess.py may not be python3 compatible?
-* :ghissue:`9898`: using ``xs=..., ys=...`` on ax.scatter 2D raises error
-* :ghissue:`9864`: Missing ``normed`` parameter description in matplotlib.pyplot.hist
-* :ghissue:`9896`: Simple documentation typo
-* :ghissue:`9895`: Sequential colormaps doesn't reach 100 lightness (pure white)
-* :ghissue:`9893`: Bug with setting minor tick marks on plots
-* :ghissue:`9890`: how to autoscale y axis in different [x1,x2] range?
-* :ghissue:`9835`: Shift+Arrow key events not detected in osx backend
-* :ghissue:`9879`: Usage FAQ section missing in 2.1.0 documentation
-* :ghissue:`9786`: Consistent Documentation Guide for Docstrings
-* :ghissue:`2259`: dates.date2num no longer works with numpy.datetime64
-* :ghissue:`9868`: Infinite number of /tmp/matplotlib-* dirs on machine without HOME env variable
-* :ghissue:`8039`: "savefig" bug with unicode characters (version 2.0.0)
-* :ghissue:`9834`: console gets stuck when creating figure
-* :ghissue:`9866`: ValueError: ordinal must be >= 1
-* :ghissue:`9130`: axes.get_tightbbox doesn't include legends...
-* :ghissue:`9302`: ENH: Switch from verbose to logging for warnings and logging
-* :ghissue:`9531`: Improve Colormap example.  
-* :ghissue:`9838`: YearLocator should prefer ticks at the turn of the decade
-* :ghissue:`9784`: plot(2D, 2D) will cycle through the input columns even with non-matching shapes
-* :ghissue:`9719`: Appveyor passing, even when tests are failing
-* :ghissue:`9849`: Crash when scroll on figure
-* :ghissue:`1257`: Support for hierarchical labeling of bar-plots
-* :ghissue:`9833`: Visibility of pane edges in 3d figures
-* :ghissue:`9840`: quiver angles array UnboundLocalError: local variable 'lengths' referenced before assignment 
-* :ghissue:`9828`: Can't pickle plots with date axes (from pandas)
-* :ghissue:`9822`: Cloud any one experience the below error while installing 'pyplot' package 
-* :ghissue:`9788`: font_manager calls nonexistent method FT2Font.get_fontsize
-* :ghissue:`9436`: Instance of 'TextBox' has no 'observers' member?
-* :ghissue:`9820`: Borders appear only for the first bar in the bar plot.
-* :ghissue:`9744`: *frac* in set_thetagrids() doesn't work
-* :ghissue:`9819`: Multi-page PDF file size jumps since 2.0.0
-* :ghissue:`9818`: edgecolor arg set to scalar applies to the first bar in bar() method
-* :ghissue:`9610`: provide converters for datetime64 types
-* :ghissue:`9815`: svg backend truncates output size to integer, which it doesn't need to (and pdf backend doesn't)
-* :ghissue:`9785`:  ``zorder=None`` not properly handled
-* :ghissue:`9735`: 2.1.0 sdist does not allow building docs
-* :ghissue:`9809`: legend() fails when data set with empty error bars has been plotted
-* :ghissue:`9808`: inconsistent hatch and border color in barh in matplotlib 2.1.0
-* :ghissue:`7200`: Default locator for log-scale messes up minor ticks sometimes
-* :ghissue:`9798`: PdfPages and PdfFile closing error
-* :ghissue:`5541`: errorbar of (x,y) data on semilogx plot with NaN in x throws ValueError if errorbar() command initializes the axes
-* :ghissue:`9791`: Contour plot doesn't show if setting "manual=True" in plt.clabel()
-* :ghissue:`9780`: Dotted grid lines have different individual dot sizes in pdf files
-* :ghissue:`5898`: Error on datetime data in stacked histogram plot
-* :ghissue:`8982`:  Backend MacOSX keyboard not working
-* :ghissue:`9771`: Error in matplotlib with datetime64 with pandas 0.21.0
-* :ghissue:`9256`: reading truncated png can segfault python
-* :ghissue:`9664`: Change in behavior of axis.tick_left() with shared axes from 2.0 to 2.1
-* :ghissue:`9358`: zoom/pan stack bug in 2.1.0
-* :ghissue:`9720`: plt.pcolormesh stopped working with Masked Arrays
-* :ghissue:`1668`: Support .otf fonts
-* :ghissue:`9758`: plt.ginput broken on 2.1.0: plot does not appear
-* :ghissue:`2203`: Allow negative radial grid values in polar.py
-* :ghissue:`6026`: bad behaviour on DateFormatter on y-axis --> polar vs normal plot
-* :ghissue:`9742`: clabel raises KeyError with level on boundary since matplotlib 2.1.0
-* :ghissue:`9669`: Make forward=True default consistent across size changing methods
-* :ghissue:`9751`: inconsistency in the algorithm for calculating cross spectral densities
-* :ghissue:`5837`: Cannot start tkinter-based example on Python 3.5.1 using Mac Homebrew for Python and Tk
-* :ghissue:`2422`: PDF backend on OS X 10.8 creates PDFs that are viewable in Adobe Reader, but not in Preview or QuickLook
-* :ghissue:`9740`: doc infelicities on subaxes
-* :ghissue:`9651`: "block" keyword unrecognized in 2.1 in notebook backend
-* :ghissue:`9716`: Large size of plots saved as pdf
-* :ghissue:`9741`: Missing arguments in call to exception_handler
-* :ghissue:`9729`: plt.pause() with notebook backend causes error 
-* :ghissue:`8122`: keyword labelrotation is not recognized
-* :ghissue:`9655`: Segmentation fault when starting a timer a second time (MacOS X backend)
-* :ghissue:`9699`: IndexError thrown by pyplot.legend()
-* :ghissue:`9494`: Categorical not hitting update path on fill_between
-* :ghissue:`9700`: Subsequent calls to plt.scatter with different categories raise ValueError
-* :ghissue:`9702`: Broken pdf export when using genuine TeX (Missing encode)
-* :ghissue:`9701`: Bars are not visible in bar plot when log scale is enabled
-* :ghissue:`9688`: ValueError: Invalid RGBA argument: nan
-* :ghissue:`9548`: failure on import due to IOError writing font cache
-* :ghissue:`9674`: is FigureCanvas<Backend>.blit(... bbox=box) ever used?
-* :ghissue:`9671`: Style configuration changing behavior of savefig
-* :ghissue:`9663`: Spelling error in gallery (agg_oo_sgskip.html)
-* :ghissue:`9659`: patches.Arc objects randomly drawing the full ellipse
-* :ghissue:`9380`: Cannot import pyplot. NameError:  'FigureManagerWebAgg' is not defined
-* :ghissue:`3476`: File save dialog output goes to python terminal on OS X
-* :ghissue:`8623`: fill_between incorrect with log y-axis and value 0
-* :ghissue:`4450`: shared axes switch to log scale
-* :ghissue:`9320`: 2.1 figure.legend broken
-* :ghissue:`9635`: matplotlib spline adjustment changes tick label visibility
-* :ghissue:`9388`: Mouse events have incorrect inaxes/data properties when axes overlap (matplotlib 2.1.0)
-* :ghissue:`9457`: ax.fill_between broken for log scale and values below zero
-* :ghissue:`9558`: Inconsistency between AutoLocator and AutoDateLocator
-* :ghissue:`9288`: Histograms disappear with logarithmic y-axis
-* :ghissue:`9628`: Histogram missing in Matplotlib 2.1.0
-* :ghissue:`9609`: matplotlib color not equal to the setting
-* :ghissue:`9611`: Unexpected behaviour with string input to .plot and .fill_between
-* :ghissue:`9626`: Categorical plot example not working in 2.02.
-* :ghissue:`9348`: Matplotlib introduction is unattributed
-* :ghissue:`7158`: Arrays are not equal in 2.0.0b4 testsuite on Fedora rawhide/aarch64 (ARM v8 64bit)
-* :ghissue:`9520`: XKCD context manager not resetting anymore in 2.1
-* :ghissue:`3491`: What's the best way to make a matplotlib colormap mutable?
-* :ghissue:`9541`: Broken Basemap rotpole projection
-* :ghissue:`9591`: Unable to draw horizontal arrow using annotation
-* :ghissue:`9592`: Scientific notation digits on figure
-* :ghissue:`9590`: Scientific format digits on figure
-* :ghissue:`9557`: Behavior of hist() with normed=True changes from v2.0 to v2.1
-* :ghissue:`9585`: Cannot write JPG images anymore with Pillow 4.2
-* :ghissue:`9581`: pixel sizes uneven with ImageGrid
-* :ghissue:`9577`: Plotting pcolor with datetime along coordinate fails with TypeError: invalid type promotion
-* :ghissue:`9578`: matplotlib 2.1.0 "stable"
-* :ghissue:`9467`: Error on updating to matplotlib 2.1.0
-* :ghissue:`9249`: basemap pcolormesh warning with matplotlib 2.0
-* :ghissue:`9443`: Cartopy Border Plotting Fails on 2.1 Only
-* :ghissue:`9567`: Possible bug in tight_layout?
-* :ghissue:`9560`: Can you add some speed speed to matplotlib.pyplot.stem?
-* :ghissue:`9537`: No Bugs at all
-* :ghissue:`8282`: changing facecolor to 'none' prevents updating canvas
-* :ghissue:`3708`: examples/cursor.py gives RuntimeError on mac osx
-* :ghissue:`8090`: Spectrogram of large arrays behaves badly on MacOSX backend
-* :ghissue:`6538`: On armv7hl, some get_cursor_data calls return 0 instead of None.
-* :ghissue:`9545`: plot_surface gives blank figure with log scale for axes
-* :ghissue:`8426`: PcolorImage does not set ``_extent``
-* :ghissue:`9538`: How to avoid override pie
-* :ghissue:`9406`: 2.1.0 serious regression in Qt5 backend
-* :ghissue:`9361`: 2.1 change - Axis Limit Error 
-* :ghissue:`9390`: Save to .pdf doesn't work in 2.1.0
-* :ghissue:`9485`: FileNotFoundError while import matplotlib (maybe pyplot)
-* :ghissue:`9332`: Qt backend figureoptions.py does not work due to change in image.py
-* :ghissue:`6516`: savefig to pdf: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
-* :ghissue:`9499`: A 3D object appears in front of another object, even though it is physically behind it.
-* :ghissue:`5474`: tight_layout puts axes title below twiny xlabel 
-* :ghissue:`9183`: X-axis doesn't show entirely
-* :ghissue:`8814`: 3D plot camera-rotation does not update with mouse movement when using the MacOS backend
-* :ghissue:`9491`: TextBox widget on MacOSX fails with RuntimeError: Cannot get window extent w/o renderer
-* :ghissue:`9496`: barh edgecolor and hatch are not applied to all bars
-* :ghissue:`8804`: Division by zero in AutoMinorLocator
-* :ghissue:`9480`: QWidget raise above canvas
-* :ghissue:`9489`: Opening an interactive figure doesn't work on MacOSX backend with matplotlib v2.1
-* :ghissue:`7092`: pyplot.scatter method is not working with Iterator types of an input arguments
-* :ghissue:`8131`: bad error message from pyplot.plot
-* :ghissue:`8333`: Rely on numpy to properly normalize histograms with unequal bin widths
-* :ghissue:`9334`: Remove restriction in ``plt.margins(m)`` to  0 <= m <= 1 
-* :ghissue:`9474`: [TST] qt5 backend test sometimes failing
-* :ghissue:`9377`: Shadow applied to a simple patch does not show
-* :ghissue:`9355`: DOC: developer tips guide incomplete (for complete newbie)
-* :ghissue:`2539`: boxplot treats iterables differently by type
-* :ghissue:`5630`:  Ipe backend
-* :ghissue:`9455`: ticklabel and gridlines in polar projection in v2.1.0
-* :ghissue:`9088`: Number of levels in contour can be larger than the requested number
-* :ghissue:`9471`: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'zorder'
-* :ghissue:`8941`: Colorbar: 'shrink' not recognized at argument to colorbar when cax is specified
-* :ghissue:`9466`: Plot window crashes when the 'Edit axes' button is pressed'
-* :ghissue:`8411`: Saving figures as PDF miss aligns rotated labels
-* :ghissue:`9397`: Incorrect labels returned with custom formatter and locator
-* :ghissue:`9453`: how to remove the black bounding box of legend?
-* :ghissue:`8193`: eventplot throws exception when using color different than one of  {'b', 'g', 'r', 'c', 'm', 'y', 'k', 'w'}
-* :ghissue:`8883`: Incorrect example for interactive plotting in Matplotlib Usage FAQ
-* :ghissue:`7527`: Locators raise unclear exceptions on MappingView input
-* :ghissue:`8769`: seeing issue on six.py import name in matplotlib on python3.4
-* :ghissue:`9182`: Text bug
-* :ghissue:`9326`: Non-reproducible line in Image tutorial
-* :ghissue:`8796`: Varying results depending on freetype version
-* :ghissue:`9412`: pyplot.pause doesn't import the time module but uses it (v2.1.0)
-* :ghissue:`9407`: 2.1.0: Cannot save figures in GTK backend
-* :ghissue:`9176`: Appveyor build failing
-* :ghissue:`9331`: ``matplotlib.pyplot`` is missing from intersphinx
-* :ghissue:`9280`: imshow errors when plotting completely masked array
-* :ghissue:`9349`: user's guide seriously denuded...
-* :ghissue:`9369`: 2.1 - new problem with log ax.transData
-* :ghissue:`9371`: Toolbar issue: Python3, wx4, windows only
-* :ghissue:`9366`: MPL 2.1 cannot construct figure with figsize
-* :ghissue:`9351`: mpl 2.1 barcharts edgecolor and linewidth only apply to first bar
-* :ghissue:`9360`: When use a large data to draw a graph, It shows abnormal..
-* :ghissue:`9357`: ENH: Pickle backend
-* :ghissue:`9345`: matplotlib 2.1.0, backend macosx: need _BackendMac, got FigureManagerMac
-* :ghissue:`9344`: ImportError: No module named functools_lru_cache
-* :ghissue:`9241`: Errorbar plot with first value masked raises TypeError
-* :ghissue:`9322`: Usage Guide has description "circled in green" for Axis from v 1.5
-* :ghissue:`4728`: Sort out how to auto-nbconvert notebooks as part of doc build
-* :ghissue:`3707`: re-write release guide
-* :ghissue:`9315`: Can't exit the Drawing board process on Ubuntu
-* :ghissue:`7422`: Document that python setup.py develop add the symlink to easy-install.pth
-* :ghissue:`5256`: 1.5.0~rc2: unittest failures/errors on (debian) arm64
-* :ghissue:`9301`: Panning with mouse using Axes3d in plt.show() is laggy
-* :ghissue:`9267`: NaN positional argument to ``ax.text`` fails silently notebook backend.
-* :ghissue:`9294`: Segmentation fault (core dumped) when import matplotlib.pyplot
-* :ghissue:`9235`: Incorrect fill_betweenx interpolation
-* :ghissue:`8706`: Bug with 3D graphing
-* :ghissue:`9276`: Discrepancy between svg and png plots
-* :ghissue:`9273`: plot() mfc doesn't accept RGBA color